Authoritarian Parenting Style Analysis

A great deal of a person’s personality comes from their parents, childhood development, and life experiences. However, environmental factors are not the only impactful elements of a person’s character. The different parenting styles used to raise a child can impact them greatly. My father is convinced that the authoritarian style is the most effective and produces the best results. Authoritarian parents demand unquestioned obedience, and punish transgressions. My mother is a permissive parent who believes love can achieve and teach everything a person needs in life. Nurture is immensely important in shaping the personality of who a person will later become. The man and woman who nurtured me as a child soon got divorced when I was eight years

Authoritarian parents are strict and tough on their kids, often leading to hostility between the parent and child. Permissive parents care more about being friends with their children instead of playing the role of the parent in charge; they are often equals. This can cause the child to seek a parental figure elsewhere in their life; women often end up dating older men (Broderick, 2010). In my case, my authoritarian parent was only around until I was nine years old. My mother and father were complete opposites. Every situation that she thought needed tender loving care, he believed needed a strong punishment. When my mother would lend a helping hand to someone in need, my dad would step in a scold them for their mistakes. Watching this act of strength must have either really scared me or greatly impressed me because I follow the same thought process as he does; punishment fixes everything. Due to their differences, he and my mother soon got divorced, causing him to leave an even bigger impact on who I am today. Not only am I apparently suffering from guilt of my father leaving home, but I also continue to struggle with building and keeping relationships. Researching nature and nurture has enlightened me to the extreme effects a parent can have on their child. I have now been made aware of multiple insecurities and issues that I was not able to fully acknowledge before. I am better able to realize just how greatly I was effected by simple everyday struggles. Furthering my knowledge of the different parenting styles has allowed me to study my childhood and better understand my parents and even myself. The different parenting styles result in different effects and impact every child in a unique way. After careful research I have concluded that regardless of how absent my father was in my youth, I have become a spitting image of him and his specific parenting style. Now we