Inter-generational similarities and differences in parenting

Pages: 867-870
Bhavna Uba and Meena Jain (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

Change is inevitable and with time everything changes at its own pace. None of the factors, be it psychological or social can be prevented from change. One of the most influential factors in child’s life is parenting. Parenting can be defined as a process through which parents nourish their children with care, love values and other factors. In the last decades, parenting and parenting style have gone through a tremendous amount of change. Along with parenting style, the parent-child relationship has also transformed. Keeping this in mind, the present paper has tried to explore what is parenting, different styles of parenting and how parenting and parent child-relationship has changed over time. This paper has been done by reviewing different papers and articles and it was found that the family structure, expansion in the opportunities and choices available to parents as well as children have influenced parenting to a great extent. The advent of technology has brought everything in the immediate reach of children which has resulted in decreased level of patience in children and has made parenting a burdensome task. Besides the differences, the paper also indicates towards the evidences in support of the notion that similarities transmit from one generation parents to the next one.