Your work is going to be read by thousands of people. You ARE Penn State in this case and your work represents the quality of work Penn State students perform. Use your spell checker and proof carefully. Locate a related website and include it in your 'additional information' section. A parenting style can be very simply defined as how a person parents.
Authoritarian parents have high demandingness, but low responsiveness.
These parents are very demanding, uncompromising, and physical. Permissive parents have high responsiveness, but low demandingness. Authoritative parents have both high demandingness and high responsiveness. These parents set high goals for their children, and give large amounts of emotional support. Neglectful parents have both low demandingness and low responsiveness.