Authoritative parenting is characterised by high expectations of compliance to parental rules and directions, an open dialogue about those rules and behaviours, and a child centred approach. Authoritative parents combine high support and responsiveness (warmth and sensitivity to the child’s needs) with supervision and firm expectations for behaviour. Dimensions of warmth and control are both high in this approach. Similarly, authoritarian parenting style is characterized by high expectation of conformity and compliance to parental rules and directions but do not explain the rules at all, unlike the authoritative parent. It is about low responsiveness and support (warmth) combined with high levels of control. On the other hand, permissive parenting is characterized as having few behavioural expectations for the child. It is an indulgent or lenient parenting with high responsiveness and low levels of control; parents are nurturing and accepting, but non-demanding. A fourth type of parenting style has however been identified by Maccoby and Martin (1983), referred to as neglectful or uninvolved, in which parents are undemanding and unresponsive (Lamborn et al., 1991). Parenting practices have been repeatedly linked to adolescent psychological state.