Family types

Types of family

• Authoritarian: high control & low warmth. Parents: highly directive, more controlling, show less warmth, mantain order, discourage debates, are more distance.

• Permissive/Laissez-Faire: low control $ high warmth. Parents: make fewer demands, little discipline, avoid confrontation, and let kids do whatever they want.

• Rejecting/Neglecting (indiferent): low control & low warmth. Parents: don't organize, don't have strucure, neglect their children, may be overwhelmed by real problems: illness or poverty, don't pay attention to their sons.

• Authoritative (democratic): high control & high warmth. Parents: flexible but firm, mantain control and disciplne but show some reason and flexibility, allow a give-and-take, promote responsability, cooperation and self-regulation.