There have been all manner of parenting styles from attachment parenting, to helicopter parenting, to free-range parenting.

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According to Kim, since the 1980s, academics have divided parenting styles into four categories authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and negligent.

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There are different parenting styles and some work for different parents.

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But they did zero in on movies by controlling for a wide range of extenuating factors, including race, household income, school performance, parenting styles, smoking among friends and family members, and even personality traits such as rebelliousness.

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Parenting styles are philosophies and no one is better then the other, You have to raise the child for the environment they will live in, Why don't we just get over to other foreign places and tell them Large Game hunting is child endangerment not a right of passage!

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