But nothing can substitute for engaged, discerning, and authoritativeparenting - exactly the sort that contemporary Americans seem unwilling to do.
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According to Kim, since the 1980s, academics have divided parenting styles into four categories authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and negligent.
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