PERMISSIVE PARENTING
Introduction and Conceptual Foundations The concept of Permissive Parenting, often categorized as one of the fundamental styles of child-rearing, was initially and most prominently postulated by the pioneering American developmental psychologist, Diana Baumrind, in the 1960s. Baumrind’s seminal work established a tripartite model—Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Permissive—based on two core dimensions of parental behavior: demandingness (control) […]