Implications of Parenting Styles to Juvenile Deliquency at Pook Pag-Asa Barangay Batasan Hills, Quezon City: An Emerging Guide

Abstract

Parenting styles are psychological constructs representing standard strategies that parents use in child rearing. The quality of parenting can be more essential than the quality of the time spent with the child. In psychology today, there are four major recognized parenting styles, namely, authoritative, neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian. Each one carries different characteristics and brings about different reactions from children. It is important to keep in mind that every parent child relationship is different, so there is not one way to go about parenting. Minors’ membership in gangs and engagement in potentially harmful and illegal acts, prompted the researchers to look into the perceptions of barangay officials and residents on the implications of parenting styles to juvenile delinquency at Pook Pag-asa Barangay Batasan Hills, Quezon City. The study utilized the descriptive method of research. Questionnaires, interviews, and observations were used. Majority of the respondents were aged 41 and above, 68% were female, 66% were married and 32% had college level education. Respondents had perceptions on the effect of maltreatment of children. Reasons for maltreatment of the children by their parent/guardian were provided by the respondents. The findings of the study may be used as basis for different measures regarding the increasing rate of child abuse.