8.2 Parenting Styles

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2.8.2 .Education of Parents
Researchers strongly agree that whether parents are educated or not, obviously has a positive consequence on child rearing practices. Parent education builds up families by provide relevant and valuable education and support, encouragement of an best possible environment for healthy growth and development of both parents and children. Also, education has links with decreased rates of child abuse and neglect, better physical, cognitive and emotional development in children, increased parental knowledge of child development and parenting skills, improved parent-child communication, reduced youth substance abuse, and more effective parental monitoring and discipline (Samuelson, 2010).
Parlakian (2004 p24) also added
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The main typologies are permissive (lax on rules, child-directed), authoritarian (firm on rules, parent-directed), authoritative (parent sets rules but allows child input) and neglectful (limited rules or involvement).
Casas, Weigel, Crick, Ostrov, Woods, Yeh, and Huddleston-Casas (2006) examine the relationship between parenting styles and aggressive behaviors of children with intellectual disabilities. There were variations in the findings related to both parent and child gender, yet the distribution of parenting styles was quite similar between both mothers and fathers (Casas et al., 2006). Permissive parenting from mothers was associated with sons being relationally aggressive (verbally or socially aggressive) and daughters as being both relationally and physically aggressive. Authoritarian parenting from mothers also was related to relational aggression in daughters, yet authoritarian parenting from fathers was related to relational aggression in both sons and daughters. Parental psychological control was associated with both relational and physical aggression in daughters, but the findings were inconsistent for sons (Casas et al.2006). Parenting styles in relation to the possible influence of parenting style on children were examined in relation to predetermined styles of child behavior. Cornell and Frick
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Most children do best when their mothers and fathers engage authoritative parenting. Such style of child rearing involves costing time with children, providing emotional help, giving everyday support, observeing children's behaviour, and providing consistent, fair and proportionatediscipline. Better appreciation of where fathers fit-in will lead to happier and more productive (creative) children (Santrock, 2006).According to Maccoby (2000) children’s genetic predispositions and their parents’ childrearing system are seen to be closely linked, and the ways in which they function jointly to affect children’s development. And Diament (2012) reveals that positive parenting style helps children with special needs to exhibit greater independence, better language skills, stronger emotional expression and social interaction as well as improved