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Parenting Styles And Development

An adult who was raised by permissive parents would face great challenges when confronted with a mid-life crisis. Growing up in a home with little structure could lead to an inability to devise clear strategies to navigate the difficulties of a mid-life crisis. A child of permissive parents could easily avoid simple childhood problems by simply ignoring them because the parents will ignore them as well. Therefore, as the child grows into an adult they have not developed the problem solving skills necessary to deal with the financial, personal, and career challenges that accompany a mid-life crisis. Facing a mid-life crisis, they could become permanently stuck in a state of crisis without any direction from others.

Similar to an adult raised by permissive parents, a child raised by authoritarian parents would have great difficulties guiding themselves through a mid-life crisis, but for very different reasons. A child raised by authoritarian parents would have been told specifically what they were to do in the event that a challenge confronted them. The reason behind the solution would not be explained to them. They would execute the solution because that is what they were told to do. The solution may be the right one, or it may be the wrong one, but the child doesn't have the flexibility to explore other options because they have been conditioned to implement whatever solution they are given by their parents. This lack of communication prevents a child from learning from their mistakes. An adult raised in this environment, much a like an adult raised by permissive parents, would not have developed the proper problem solving skill sets necessary when dealing with a mid-life crisis. After a childhood where all decisions were made for them, an adult raised in an authoritarian environment would become lost in a mid-life crisis without an authoritarian figure to tell them the way to deal with their situation.

A child raised by authoritative parents would have a...