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... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Sociological Factors > Family > Family Relations > Parenting
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Psychology, Social > Family > Family Relations > Parenting
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Psychology, Social > Family > Family Relations > Parenting

Preferred term

Parenting  

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  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.

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In other languages

  • Pratiques éducatives parentales

    French

  • Éducation par les parents
  • Éducation parentale
  • Parentalité
  • Pratiques éducatives des parents
  • Responsabilités parentales

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-HHHHDX61-8

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