When Child-Rearing Methods Have Been Studied, Researchers Have Found That

question 177

Multiple Choice

When child-rearing methods have been studied, researchers have found that:

• A) children have lasting emotional damage if their parents use severe childrearing methods.
• B) parents adopt a preferred method of childrearing and seldom vary it from child to child.
• C) parents are more lenient with easygoing children and more punitive with difficult ones.
• D) loving parents who are consistent in their child-rearing seldom have troubled children.

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