FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Theme: Parenting
What is parenting?
It is a task concerned with the raising of children so as to provide sufficient material and emotional care to further physical, cognitive and social development.
What are various parenting factors which play important role in the development of a child?
There are various parenting factors described by behavior scientists. Discipline, personal warmth, amount and type of interaction, parental regulation of affect, mother-infact bonding, parental quarreling, special attachment relationship in infancy, mental illness in parents, parental emotional support are the salient ones.
What are categories of abnormal parenting?
There are two distinct categories of abnormal parenting described.
Does psychiatric disorder in a parent affect development of the offspring?
Michael Rutter in his monograph of "Children of Sick Parents"(Rutter, 1966) mentioned following findings of a study he had conducted:
- There is a strong association between parental illness and psychiatric disorder in children.
- As parental illness usually precedes the development of the child's disorder, it is reasonable to suggest a parent-to-child effect.
- Parental disorder is most likely to be followed by behavioral disturbances in children when the parent exhibits a "long-standing abnormality in personality."
Can an abnormal parenting be improved?
Abnormal parenting can be improved by following programs:
