Authoritarian parenting

Examples of Authoritarian parenting in the following topics:

• Authority Patterns

  • The three main parenting styles in early child development are authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive.
  • In 1983, Diana Baumrind found that children raised in an authoritarian style home were less cheerful, more moody and more vulnerable to stress.
  • Developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind identified three main parenting styles in early child development: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive.
  • Authoritarian parenting styles can be very rigid and strict.
  • Parents who practice authoritarian style parenting have a strict set of rules and expectations and require rigid obedience.

• Child Rearing

  • Parenting is usually done by the biological parents of the child in question, with governments and society playing ancillary roles.
  • Orphaned or abandoned children are often reared by non-parent blood relations.
  • Developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind identified three main parenting styles in early child development: Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive.
  • These parenting styles were later expanded to four, including an Uninvolved style.
  • Authoritarian parenting is very rigid and strict.

• Parenthood

  • Developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind identified three main parenting styles in early child development: authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive.
  • Authoritarian parenting styles can be very rigid and strict.
  • Helicopter Parenting: over-parenting; parents are constantly involving themselves, interrupting the child's ability to function on their own
  • Strict Parenting: focused on strict discipline; demanding, with high expectations from the parents
  • Parenting is a lifelong process.

• Research Examples

  • Kohn,[14] explored differences in how parents raise their children relative to their social class.
  • Kohn found that lower class parents were more likely to emphasize conformity in their children whereas middle-class parents were more likely to emphasize creativity and self-reliance.
  • Ellis et. al. proposed and found that parents value conformity over self-reliance in children to the extent that conformity superseded self-reliance as a criterion for success in their own endeavors.
  • In other words, Ellis et. al. verified that the reason lower-class parents emphasize conformity in their children is because they experience conformity in their day-to-day activities.
  • Annette Lareau, for example, utilized interviews and participant observation with middle and working class parents to demonstrate two primary patterns of child rearing distinguished by class status - concerted cultivation and natural growth.

• Protecting Research Subjects

  • The participants adapted to their roles well beyond expectations, as the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture.
  • The participants adapted to their roles well beyond expectations, as the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture.
  • For instance, research on children and youth always requires parental consent .

• Emerging Values

  • By contrast, their parents or grandparents tend to belong to the Baby Boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964.
  • For example, those who experience economic scarcity in childhood may as adults place a high value on meeting economic needs (such as valuing economic growth above protecting the environment) and on safety needs (such as supporting more authoritarian styles of leadership or exhibiting strong feelings of national pride—e.g., maintaining a strong army or willingness to sacrifice civil liberties for the sake of law and order).

• Child Custody Laws

  • Child custody and guardianship are legal terms, which are used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent's duty to care for the child.
  • While the child is with the parent, that parent retains sole authority over the child.
  • If a child lives with both parents, each parent shares "joint physical custody" and each parent is said to be a "custodial parent. " Thus, in joint physical custody, neither parent is said to be a "non-custodial parent. "
  • A custodial parent is a parent who is given physical and/or legal custody of a child by court order.
  • A non-custodial parent is a parent who does not have physical and/or legal custody of his/her child by court order.

• Family Structures

  • The two-parent nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms such as, homosexual relationships, single-parent households, and adopting individuals are more common.
  • However, 64 percent of children still reside in a two-parent, household as of 2012.
  • A single parent is a parent who cares for one or more children without the assistance of the other biological parent.
  • Single-parent homes are increasing as married couples divorce, or as unmarried couples have children.
  • About 4 percent of children live with a relative other than a parent.

• Types of States

  • Under this system, governments fall into general categories of authoritarianism, oligarchy, and democracy.
  • Authoritarian governments differ in who holds power and in how much control they assume over those that they govern, but all are marked by the fact that the empowered are unelected individuals.

• Unmarried Mothers

  • With the rise of single-parent households, unmarried mothers have become more common in the United States.
  • One recent trend illustrating the changing nature of families is the rise in prevalence of the single-parent household.
  • Since the 1960s, there has been a marked increase in the number of children living with a single parent.
  • Marisa and Noelle, 18 months, live with Marisa's parents.
  • Discuss the factors involved in the increasing number of single-parent households