Parenting
PARENTING “ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ” –Anne Frank Parenting , the process of raising children and providing them with protection and care in order to ensure their healthy development into adulthood . SIGNIFICANCE OF PARENTING The long-standing assumption that parents assert a direct and powerful influence on their children through the process of socialization has permeated research and theory on human development as well as most cultural belief systems. If children turn out well, it is to the parents’ credit; if they turn out badly, it is the parents’ fault. This assumption has been challenged by researchers who highlight the role of biological influences on children’s development. Behavioral genetic studies, for example, show that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adoptive parents in basic cha...