How a child is treated has enormous effects on their well-being when they grow up. There is no such thing as “perfect parenting.” However, researchers have found four different parenting styles that parents will loosely fall into.
These styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved. Each parenting style takes a different approach to raising children and can be identified by specific characteristics. To learn about what these parenting styles are and how they affect children, click through the following gallery.