Childhood Parenting: Main approaches and aspects analyzed from psychology.

Abstract

Parenting has been defined as the knowledge, attitudes, competences, beliefs and behaviors that parents assume in relation to their children?s socialization. Research on this issue has largely increased during the last decades, highly focusing on the study of attachment and parenting styles and their impact on the psychological development of infants, children and adolescents. Within this framework, this work aims to analyze the main parenting approaches and features that have been studied in psychology. Likewise, some studies carried out with the Argentine population are included, in which we can confirm the important influence that parenting exerts on children?s emotional, social and cognitive development. Finally, based on the studies reviewed, future lines of research in this area are suggested.