My wife is currently in nursing school, and she is getting ready to finish a class in Lifespan Psychology. One time, she read me some of her notes concerning different forms of parenting, including authoritarian, permissive, authoritative (the best and most common form), and uninvolved parenting. This last one is the worst, in which parents have no interest in supporting or even disciplining their children. Kids are often left to fend for themselves and often turn emotionally detached, physically and perhaps cognitively underdeveloped, and even at times hostile.
