There are three basic styles of parenting: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative. An authoritarian’s standards for good behavior are high, misconduct is firmly punished, and parent-child communication is low. They are not to be questioned by their children. If a child was to misbehave they would be punished strictly, usually physically, though they do not necessarily physically abuse their children.

Permissive parent’s hardly ever punish, guide, or control their children but are nurturing and communicate well with their children. They make few demands on their children and do not show impatience with them. There is not much need for discipline because they do not ask for maturity. They want to help their children but do not feel responsible for s

Parenting is a full time job and people who decide to have children need to be sure that they are willing and responsible to give a child what they need to grow, be happy and lead a satisfying life.

According to research, spanking, an open hand or an object on the child’s buttocks in a controlled manner, can lead to aggression. Instrumental aggression happens when children are fighting over toys or other objects. This seems unrelated to punishment in the home. Reactive aggression is retaliation or angry revenge for an accidental or purposeful act. This type of aggression was strongly affected by spanking at home. When compared to children who were not spanked, children who were spanked were more than twice as likely to get even for any wrong, by reactive aggression. They reacted in a hostile way rather than moving away, asking for an explanation, or even telling on the other child. Bullying aggression, unprovoked attack, was plainly connected with being violently punished, especially in the case of exceptionally aggressive children, mostly boys, who were regularly spanked, hit (the impulsive or spontaneous use of a fist or clos

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