Parenting Styles

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Parenting Styles

• Parenting Styles can have a large effect on
  children.

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Authoritarian Parenting

• Parents act like tyrants.
• Parents are very restrictive and demand
  obedience.
• Kids do not have a lot of say.

3
Authoritarian Parenting Effects

• Bad Decision Makers
• Socially Incompetent

4
Permissive Indifferent Parenting

• Parents let the children do as they wish.
• Very little social interaction with kids.
• Children feel that other aspects of their
  parents lives are more important than the
  children.

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Permissive Indulgent Parenting

• Parents are involved with the childrens lives
  but do not place many demands or controls on
  them.
• Soft parents.

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Permissive Parenting Effects

• Kids do not have a lot of self motivation.
• Kids have difficulty controlling their behavior.
• Kids have problems making decisions.

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Democratic Parenting

• Kids are encouraged to be independent.
• All family members are involved in the decision
  making process.
• Verbal give and take
• Parents set limits and are consistent with the
  rules.

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Democratic Parenting Effects

• Friendly, Self confident, Responsible kids.
• Generally these kids like the relationship they
  have with their parents.
• They do not want to disappoint their parents.

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Transmission of Values

• Most adults end up in the same socioeconomic
  class that they were born into.

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Sociologists Kohn and Schooler felt that the
following contributed to social class
distinctions

• Access to education.
• Opportunities in the job market.
• Values that parents instill in their children.

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Kohn and Schooler studied families for 20 years
and found

• Differences in the way different socioeconomic
  classes instilled values in their kids.
• These differences were linked to their careers.

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Working Class Parents

• Placed more value on manners, neatness, good
  behavior in school,
• honesty, and obedience.
• Very concerned with their children following the
  rules.

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Middle Class Parents

• Place more value on consideration, interest in
  how and why things happen, responsibility, and
  self control.

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Those in higher social classes

• More likely to value self direction.
• Their jobs are not closely supervised, they deal
  with people or data instead of things, they use
  various approaches at work.

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Those in lower classes

• Are more likely to value traits that involve
  conformity to external authority.