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A 4 page research paper that describes four styles of parenting: authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved, as well as the style considered to be the best. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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from their children (Shaffer and Kipp, 2010). Authoritarian parents do not feel that is any need to pay attention to the viewpoints of their children and they typically enforce their
authority with "punitive, forceful tactics (such as power-assertion or love withdrawal)" in order to gain compliance (Shaffer and Kipp, 2010, p. 610). While authoritative parents are also controlling, they
are much more flexible. While authoritative parents also have expectations as to behavior, they are reasonable in their demands and they are also careful to "provide rationales for complying with
the limits they set" (Shaffer and Kipp, 2010, p. 611). While authoritative parents, like authoritarian parents, will ensure that their children follow the guidelines they set, they are more accepting
and also more responsive to their childrens perspectives than are their authoritarian counterparts (Shaffer and Kipp, 2010). Therefore, it can be said that authoritative parents "exercise control in a rational,
democratic way that recognizes and respects their childrens perspectives" (Shaffer and Kipp, 2010, p. 611). As this description indicates, authoritative parents combine principles of parental control with warmth and responsive,
which are qualities that are often lacking in authoritarian parenting (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2010). Permissive parenting stresses warmth and caring towards children, but offers little, if any, parental control (Kail
and Cavanaugh, 2010). As this suggests, permissive parents are indulgent, readily granting childrens requests simply because that is what the children desire. Uninvolved parents provides neither warmth of caring or
control, as these parents are basically indifferent to their children. They provide for their basic physical needs, but they work to minimize the amount of time they have to spend
with them and avoid emotional involvement with their lives (Kail and Cavanaugh, 2010). Children of authoritative parents tend to be "cheerful, socially responsible, self-reliant, achievement oriented, and cooperative with
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