ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly recapitulates the four domains of parenting and sets the findings of these efforts in a deeper discussion of specificity and universality, country and culture, determinants, strengths, and limitations, and future directions and implications. Warmth captures the dimension of parenting related to parents’ providing love, affection, and acceptance of their child. Warmth appears to be a universally positive aspect of parenting. Behavioral control focuses on parents’ regulation of their children’s actions, that is parents’ attempts to modify their children’s behavior and socialize them to become well-functioning members of their society. Rules and limit-setting involve parents’ imposition of their will on children and adolescents by constraining what children and adolescents can and cannot do. Knowledge solicitation is a prominent way parents monitor children’s activities.
