Effective Parenting in Contemporary America: Some Cautions and Some Prescriptions.

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Lamb, Michael E. Effective Parenting in Contemporary America: Some Cautions and Some Prescriptions. Apr 77 16p.; Paper presented to the Select Conference on Effective Parenting (New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 1977) NF -$0.83 HC-$1.67 Plus Postage. Correlation; Day Care Services; Discipline; Empathy; *Literature reviews; Modeling (Psychological) ; One Parent Family; *Parent Child Relationship; *Parent Influence; *Parent Role; Parents; *Research Problems; Role Models; Socialization; Working Parents This paper summarizes the components of effective, parenting for which substantial empirical support is available and discusses the problems inherent in attempts to.detersine the characteristics of effective parents in order to amend the process of socialization through the modification of parent styles. The aspects of effective parenting discussed include parental sensitivity or empathic understanding of the child, authoritative versus authoritarian and permissive parenting styles, consistenc

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