| authoritarian parenting | Parenting that is harsh, unresponsive, and rigid and in which parents tend to use power-assertive methods of control.
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| authoritative parenting | Parenting that is warm, responsive, and involved yet unintrusive and in which parents set reasonable limits and expect appropriately mature behavior from their children.
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| coparenting | Parenting in which spouses work together as a team, coordinating their child-rearing practices with each other; coparenting can be cooperative, hostile, or characterized by different levels of investment in the parenting task.
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| extended family | A family that includes relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews within the basic family unit of parents and children.
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| joint legal custody | A form of child custody in which both parents retain and share responsibility for decisions regarding the child's life, although the child usually resides with one parent.
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| joint physical custody | As in joint legal custody, parents make decisions together regarding their child's life, but they also share physical custody so that the child lives with each parent for a portion of the year.
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| latchkey children | Children who must let themselves into their homes after school because one parent or both parents are working outside the home.
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| permissive parenting | Parenting that is lax and in which parents exercise inconsistent discipline and encourage children to express their impulses freely.
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| sexual abuse | Inappropriate sexual activity between an adult and a child for the perpetrator's pleasure or benefit; the abuse may be direct (sexual contact of any type) or indirect (exposing a child to pornography or to the live exhibition of body parts or sexual acts).
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| Socialization | The process by which parents and others ensure that a child's standards of behavior, attitudes, skills, and motives conform closely to those deemed appropriate to her role in society.
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| traditional nuclear family | The traditional family form, composed of two parents and one or more children, in which the father is the breadwinner and the mother the homemaker.
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| uninvolved parenting | Parenting that is indifferent and neglectful and in which parents focus on their own needs rather than their children's needs.
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