Families
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  • Autonomy & parenting style
    • Parenting style is a global assessment of the overall quality of parenting that an individual adolescent experiences:
    • Four types of parenting styles
    • Key points about parenting style:
      • parenting must be age appropriate
      • strictness isn't bad
        • balance of psychological autonomy and behavioral control
      • parenting must be issue driven
        • Smetana's interpretation of styles in terms of legitimacy of parental authority
          • authoritarian makes the conventional moral
          • indulgent makes the conventional personal
    • Style research comes from the social learning tradition
  • Exercise: What does parenting style look like when it's applied?