Parenting Styles

Parenting Styles can have a large effect on

children.

Authoritarian Parenting

Parents act like tyrants.Parents are very restrictive and

demand obedience.Kids do not have a lot of say.

Authoritarian Parenting Effects

Bad Decision MakersSocially Incompetent

Permissive Indifferent Parenting

Parents let the children do as they wish.

Very little social interaction with kids.

Children feel that other aspects of their parent’s lives are more important than the children.

Permissive Indulgent Parenting

Parents are involved with the children’s lives but do not place many demands or controls on them.

Soft parents.

Permissive Parenting Effects

Kids do not have a lot of self motivation.

Kids have difficulty controlling their behavior.

Kids have problems making decisions.

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.

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.

Transmission of Values

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

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.

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.

Working Class Parents

Placed more value on manners, neatness, good behavior in school,

honesty, and obedience.Very concerned with their

children following the rules.

Middle Class Parents

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

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.

Those in lower classes:

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