COMPREHENDING PARENTING STYLES ACROSS THE WORLD

Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting style is a psychological construct that is defined as standard strategies used by parents to bring
up their children. Despite the fact that parents may differ in the ways they control or communicate with their children, it is assumed that the primary care of all parents is to socialize, teach, and promote the physical and emotional development of their children.
Parents’ emotional expressiveness and the emotional climate that they create through their parenting styles provide guidelines to children regarding the use of emotion in the regular everyday social interactions. It is no surprise that different countries have
wide-ranging differences in culture, cuisine, and entertainment. It looks like even parenting styles can vary vastly from one country to another. So in this article, the author points out various parenting styles namely proximal parenting style, distal parenting style, authoritative parenting style, French Parenting and authoritarian parenting style which are followed in India, Japan, America, France, United Kingdom, Russia and Japan. The goal of this article is to better understand how different parenting processes and behaviors interact to affect various child outcomes in different social contexts.