Parenting Styles Across Cultures

Introduction Baumrind defines the style of child rearing as broadly authoritative, authoritarian, and tolerant. Parenting can be defined as a way parents choose to express their children and communicate. These styles are categorized by parenting level, parental restriction level, and reaction level (Dwairy, 2004). Authoritative style shows high level demand, responsiveness and cultivation, authoritarian style shows high level demand, response level is low, loose style shows low level demand, but response capacity and cultivation rate Is high (Dwairy, 2004).

While other parenting styles are associated culturally specific results, some parenting styles are associated with positive outcomes of different cultures. For example, authoritative child rearing is related to positive self esteem and academic achievement of Chinese and European American young people, but the positive influence of "minority" parenting style is unique to Chinese young people is. There is evidence not only of cultural differences but also of cultural environment. For example, the obedience and autonomy expectations of Mexican-American and African-American parents differ depending on the school and other social environments and families. Thus, in immigrant families, the way culture is cultivated may be the result of conscious enhancement over unconscious tradition.

Parenting style of Nigeria. Child-rearing style has similarities, but culture and ethnicity are also different. Here is an example of how children and child rearing can be seen in the culture of Finland, Nigeria and the United States. "They are people who say nothing to adults until they are told that they are good girls, they do not talk to adults or attract attention in social occasions because it is a traditional one, We emphasize the values ​​and social norms, in particular the observance of discipline and respect for parents. "(Odubote 2008, 85). If you compare this with American children, there will be something in common. We are learning or listening to the norms of growth respected by elderly people. The approach of Nigerian family seems to be a little tough when it comes to attention at the social gathering, but there are several things in common. Children are the future of this particular society

The style of parenting differs from culture to culture. To nurture a good culture depends on the culture and depends on social values ​​and beliefs. The cultural and social environment in which families live helps to determine the parents' beliefs about parenting goals and child rearing patterns. This will affect the actual parenting behavior and parentage relationship (Choi, Kim & Park, 2013). I will look at two different cultures of American culture and Asian culture. I will investigate the difference between parenting between the two cultures and the result. Some people think that fostering authority is the best way to cultivate in Western culture, but people can say this for a collectivistic culture like Asia. Compared with more authoritative Western parents, Asian parents are more authoritarian in their parenting style. Western culture studies show that the authoritarian child rearing method brings poor academic results