Global Day of Parents

For as long as scholars have studied parenting, they have considered parents’ exertion of control over children to be a central dimension of parenting thousand scholarly works have been written on the topic The proliferation of theory and research on parental control has yielded a myriad of conceptualizations and operationalizations. Rollins and Thomas in 1979)identified over 15 labels used to describe parental control in more than 220 studies. Although the most common label was the simple one of control sometimes accompanied by the term hostile, also common were authoritarian, discipline , demanding , dominance , protective , punishment , and restrictive . Other terms included authoritative, coercion, power assertion, possessiveness, pressure, and strictness . Notably, the list did not even include some labels that frequently appear in contemporary work, such as behavioral control , psychological control, firm versus lax control, intrusiveness , and forceful control . The pleth...