Aggressive Defiant And Oppositional Children Are The Main Influences Of Why Parents Adopt Ineffective Parenting Practices

Aggressive defiant and oppositional children and ineffective parenting.

Aggression and opposition in children is often a result of a lack of discipline. Inept parenting can also produce children that are "aggressive defiant and oppositional". Research and studies indicate that a lack of good parenting can develop delinquent off-springs. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck conducted research on crime and delinquency and the family environment. The Social Learning theory contended the "bonding" process, Baumrind's "elements of effective parenting" and typologies which contend that the most effective parenting is the authoritative parents are responsiveness and demandingness. The Self Control Theory if children don't developed self control by age 10 years they will more than likely never acquire it. Respondent learning, operant and instrumental learning through reinforcement positive and negative, mutual training, models such as vicarious learning and the view that correlates with social learning and crime, the Coercion model. Corporal punishment and the parent child relationship and finally the structure of the family all assist in understanding the magnitude of delinquency and the part parent's play.

Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck conducted longitudinal research that revealed that the younger the age of delinquent acts the more "persistent and serious the criminal act". Antisocial behavior seems to extend through one life, most importantly they contended that behavior and family were determined the onset of delinquency.

The social Learning theory contends that conforming are related to the "bonds" that are form by children that help to divert them from deviant behavior. These bonds according to Hirschi includes attachment, commitment, involvement and belief. All of which keeps adolescents involved and apart of society. Parents and parenting are apart of this bonding process which helps to provide children with guidance and direction.

Self control theory emphasis the need for children acquire self control by age 10 years.

Respondent Learning according to Pavlov's terminology " a conditioned stimulus that produces conditioned responses". According to the respondent learning behavior is learnt and children imitate, learn and observe behavior example parent, teacher, and peers. Parent's behavior will be imitated

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