Parental involvement and adolescents

Pages 861-863
Poonam Devi and Madhu Anand (Department of Psychology, M. D. U. Rohtak, Haryana)

Today Policymakers and Educators have focused on the importance of Parental Involvement in the life of adolescents. Adolescence refers to the time between one’s childhood and adulthood, beginning with the physical and emotional changes characteristic of puberty. At adolescence age parental involvement play unique role for overall development of the child which is defined as the amount to which the parents are devoted to him or her position as a parent and in the promoting of the optimal child development. The present paper focuses on factors contributing in parental involvement such as family disruption, parent adolescent’s conflict, maternal employment and father unemployment, parental communication and adolescent’s criticism and value conflicts between parent and adolescents. Society in many ways dictates the role of mother and father. But involvement by both parents is essential for overall development of child.