For many people child rearing can be a wonderful and exciting experience but this exposure can also become a hard task to fulfill. Social evolution, cultures, and advanced social research on parenting have had a profound impact on how parents decide to raise their children. Numerous studies have been conducted that research the effects of different parenting styles and their connection with child development. Psychologist Diana Baumrind has distinguished three styles of parenting: authoritarian, laissez-faire, and authoritative.

Authoritarian parenting refers to those parents that are high in controlling their children's lives such as the rigorous enforcement of rules and discipline. In this style of parenting the authoritarian parent takes full control making it clear to the children that they are the ones in charge of establishing and enforcing all guidelines. The children in return are expected to be very obedient, and never question authority. In my opinion this...