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he E ects of a Lack of Parental Control

By: Stacey Lynn ● 05 December, 2018

Self-esteem, self-discipline, ambition and emotional development are stunted

without parental guidance and involvement, affecting an individual's decision-
making capabilities and self-identity far beyond childhood. Parental control is
not only beneficial but necessary and has immediate negative effects when
not present that can put a child in danger.

Kids Need Boundaries

Without set boundaries, there are no guidelines, and living without guidelines
creates insecurity. Parents are a child's main source of security and if the
parents' behavior indicates that they are not in control, it opens the door for
uncertainties. Kids push the limits because they need to know limits are there
and to know that someone is in charge keeping them safe, according to
AhaParenting.com, the website of clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Markham Ph.D.

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Social Context
With the correct kind of involvement, parents help children
develop interpersonal skills and guide them in socialization,
teaching them how to form relationships on their own.
he Impact of Parents have significant control over their children's
Parenting Styles on playmates when they are young. Youths from authoritative
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Children's homes look for and attract like-minded adolescents,

Development
creating a peer group that maintains high standards,
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children's associations published in "Developmental
Psychology." With parental control, parents can teach their
children how to look for qualities in a friend that will create healthy
relationships and reinforce healthy behaviors.

Risks to Safety
Neglect is the extreme of parental lack of control and can lead to a variety of
anti-social behaviors that could result in intervention by the law. In the UK the
Child Safety Order (CSO) was established to act as an early preventative
measure to indicate youths under the age of 10 at risk. The child's behavior is
identified as being anti-social and causing harm or disturbances in the
community and is often connected with home and family life, particularly
identified as a lack of supervision or neglect. A Parenting Order can be issued
alongside a CSO, with intervention to provide guidance and support in
developing parenting responsibilities to further prevent children from going
down the delinquent route.

Academic Achievement
Ambition is learned, and corresponding behaviors are
developed through the family and environment a child is a
part of. Parents lead by example for their children and the
What Are Child amount of parental control practiced has a great influence
Rearing Practices? over a child's ambition to achieve. Permissive parenting, a
parenting style that has no set boundaries or rules, results
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in lower levels of achievement as found by Phyllis Heath
Ph.D., in the 2009 edition of her book "Parent-Child Relations:
Context, Research and Application." The book compares research in regards to
academic ambition and the parenting role. The children of these families fail
to learn the self-discipline that is required in academic learning and as a result
do not achieve the success they are capable of.

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he Impact of Parenting Styles on Children's

Development
By: Ayra Moore ● 13 June, 2017

How you respond to and discipline your children greatly affects how they
develop, both cognitively and socially. A child’s development process is
influenced by a mixture of all the stimuli he comes into contact with, both with
individuals and with his environment. Since parents are normally a fixed
presence in a child’s life, they tend to have the most significant impact on
whether his development is positive or negative.

Authoritarian
Parents that practice authoritarian parenting demand total cooperation from
their children and have no tolerance for questions or breaking rules. This
parenting style expects high degrees of maturity from the child with low levels
of parent-child communication. Children disciplined by authoritarian parents
stay out of trouble and make good grades, but their social development is
negatively affected due to not being encouraged to have opinions, being shy
and constantly worrying about disappointing their parents.

Authoritative

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The authoritative parenting style, more than any other, aids

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Parenting on Children
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in ensuring healthy development, because:
▸ children are taught to follow rules
▸ ask questions
▸ have their own opinions

Research conducted by Betsy Garrison and colleagues for

Louisiana State University on how parenting styles influence cognitive ability
found authoritative parenting in both fathers and mothers to be positively
correlated with cognitive development in children. Social development also
benefits from this parenting style, because communication is welcomed and
children feel more comfortable with peers and in other social situations.

Indulgent
Indulgent, or permissive, parents focus more on being their child’s friend than a
disciplinary figure. There is an extensive amount of parent-child
communication, but very low levels of maturity and demands required of the
child. Children raised by indulgent parents have higher self-esteem, better
social skills and lower levels of depression, which aids in positive social
development. The decreased maturity and independence associated with
parental indulgence harms a child’s emotional development because he is
not required to grow in these areas.

Uninvolved
Parents who are ambivalent to their child’s wants and
needs are considered uninvolved parents. Often, this
parenting style is associated with neglect and abuse. While
What Are the
there are no demands or rules to follow for the child, there
Bene ts of a Two- is also no communication and no encouragement from the
Parent Household? parent. When parents are psychologically or physically
unavailable to their children, all elements of development
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are negatively affected. Social development is stunted
because the child is never taught how to act around
people and, therefore, feels awkward in social situations. Because of the lack of
emotional and psychological connections between the parent and child,
cognitive development also suffers.

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