Parental Authority Effects On Intimate Relationships

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Parental authority has been proven to have effects on intimate relationships among adult women. Parental authority is the set of rights and obligations parents have that allows them make decisions for their children until they turn 18. Parental authority has had a huge impact on adult women’s personalities as well as the way they interact with other people. Research has been able to confirm that our adult relationships are shaped by our early patterns of attachment and with ways of dealing with closeness, separation, and love (Boundless(2015)and (Schneider, Gruman, & Coutts(2005). There are three parenting styles that have an effect on intimate relationships. They are authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting, and permissive parenting …show more content…

Adults will most likely be supportive of their intimate partner’s decisions because they received the same thing from their parent. Authoritative parents are willing to negotiate with their children as well (Baumrind, 1971). Parents that are willing to negotiate with their children will most likely grow up to be an adult that will be able to negotiate or compromise with their intimate partners. Authoritative parents set realistic expectations and consistent limits for their children, and provide them with fair or natural consequence.Natural consequences are those that ensue as a natural result of the child's behavior (or lack of a particular behavior), with no intervention required; for example, if a child touches a hot stove and is burned by the heat, the burn is a natural consequence. (Boundless, …show more content…

Permissive parents tend to be overindulgent, make few demands, and allow their children to make their own decisions, regardless of the consequences. They tend to be very nurturing and loving and may play the role of friend rather than parent. These parents might be caught up in their own lives and therefore inattentive (although not neglectful) thus exhibiting little control over their children. Children raised by permissive parents tend to lack self-discipline, and the permissive parenting style is negatively associated with grades (Dornbusch, Ritter, Leiderman, Roberts, &Fraleigh, 1987). The permissive style may also contribute to other risky or impulsive behaviors such as alcohol abuse (Bahr & Hoffman, 2010), risky sexual behavior, especially among female children (Star, Donenberg, & Emerson (2012)), and increased display of disruptive behaviors by male children (Parent et al., 2011).Surprisingly, there are some positive outcomes associated with children raised by permissive parents: many tend to have higher self-esteem, better social skills, and report lower levels of depression (Darling, 2011).Adults that grew up under this type of parenting will most likely be unstable and try to avoid closeness in intimate relationships. According to the information by Darling (2011), adults who grew up in this type of environment might also try to control the relationships because of

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