Your friend has recently been reading about styles of parenting and tells you that according to Baumrind (1975, 1991), there four distinct parenting styles and that these include authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and egalitarian. As a student in Lifespan Psychology, which of the following would be the correct response to your friend?
"You're right, there are four distinct styles of parenting that include authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and egalitarian."
egalitarian
None of these statements would be correct responses to state to your friend.
That's not correct, while there are four distinct styles of parenting, they are instead authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful/uninvolved.
That's not correct, while there are four distinct styles of parenting, they are instead authoritative, emotional, permissive, and authoritarian.