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Also known as child rearing, child raising

thumb|A father and a [[mother holding their infant child]]

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Parenting is the process of caring for and raising children, typically involving a mother and father working together to meet their physical and emotional needs. It matters because parents play a fundamental role in a child's development and well-being during their early years of life.

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education
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Stack Exchange site URL
parenting.stackexchange.com
partially coincident with
parent and child
Commons category
Child care
topic's main category
Category:Parenting
topic has template
Template:Parenting
has characteristic
parenting style
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
NCI Thesaurus ID
C150045
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Encyclopedic overview

29 sections
Contents
  • Styles
  • Authoritative parenting
  • Authoritarian parenting
  • Permissive parenting
  • Uninvolved parenting
  • Intrusive parenting
  • Unconditional parenting
  • Trustful parenting
  • Material parenting
  • Practices
  • Skills and behaviors
  • Parent training
  • Cultural values
  • Indigenous American cultures
  • Immigrants in the United States: Ethnic-racial socialization
  • Across the lifespan
  • Pre-pregnancy
  • Pregnancy and prenatal parenting
  • Newborns and infants
  • Toddlers
  • Child
  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Effects of parenting
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|A father and a [[mother holding their infant child]]

Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and educational development from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the intricacies of raising a child and not exclusively for a biological relationship.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “parenting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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