a. The particular way parents raise children influences their psychosocial development and potentially prevents impairments within it (Ebrahimi et al., 2017).
b. Key Statement of Importance of General Goal: Therefore, it is significant to educate parents on these potentially lasting effects to encourage positive parenting practices and healthy development in children.
II. More Specific Point 1: The Authoritarian parenting style negatively affects the development of children.
a. An overwhelming number of children experience a form of depression in relation to their parents’ authoritarian parenting styles (King et al., 2016).
b. The authoritarian parenting style contributes to aggressive …show more content…
More Specific Point 2: The Permissive parenting style involves a high level of support towards children, but often affects them negatively.
a. Permissive parents that support gambling potentially increases adolescent gambling and other negative activities, including substance and alcohol use (Leeman et al., 2014).
b. Graduate students raised by the permissive and authoritarian parenting styles experienced more depression than those raised by the authoritative style, which is shown through the positive correlation between the two factors (Ebrahimi et al., 2017).
c. Permissive parenting reduces a child’s emotional intelligence or ability to manage their own emotions and understand others (Wischert et al., 2016).
IV. More Specific Point 3: The Authoritative parenting style involves positive interactions that are likely to enhance the development of children.
a. Authoritative parenting may help prevent adolescent engagement in negative activities such as smoking and drinking (Piko et al., 2012).
b. Authoritative parenting leads to a greater social understanding in children or recognition of theory of mind (O’Reilly et al.,