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The study of parental influence has been prevalent in children psychology. The different parenting styles have automatically influenced their children and have molded them into who they have become. The degree to which parental styles develop adolescent behavior is an underlying extreme. Specifically, the study of Neglectful parents have determined that their children grow up to become socially awkward, delinquents and rebellious due to the lack of discipline, care, attention and in most cases, love.

Kopko focuses on the relationship between parenting styles and adolescent upbringing.. Aiming towards a parental audience, Kopko expresses the characteristics of each different parenting style and adolescent development. Kopko utilizes an effective compare and contrast method to allow her audience to guide themselves towards a successful parenting style. Revealing all four types of parenting styles gives the parent insight on possible outcomes and affects they can have on their offspring. Remaining unbiased, the author continues to dive into the development of children through each parenting style, expressing the benefits and disadvantages of each.

More specifically, Kopko determines that neglectful parenting (which most researchers believe) is the most ineffective because it’s rates of adolescent delinquency is much higher than under any other parenting style. Kopko expresses what the neglectful parents show and feel towards their child(ren). The parents who seem to be neglectful or uninvolved with their children often “minimize their interaction time” with the child, inflicting neglect. The author emphasizes that the parents either are “overwhelmed by their circumstances or they may be self-centered” thus creating a child who demo...

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...ting and conformity demands” to express to the audience that these factor are to be ideally considered when raising an adolescent because if one goes awry, them the child could possible land in the peak point of the delinquent trajectory with the other 1.7. In example, the neglectful parents show no warmth towards their child or control which automatically destines the child to become a social delinquent when on the other hand, a child of authoritative parents show warmth but also a good amount of control which then places their child in the non-delinquency trajectory. The empirically proven statistics of parental influence on adolescent behavior serves the purpose to have parents and future parents to realize the right way to raise a child because without the proper care and parenting style, the child could possibly become an outlier, juvenile child or delinquent.