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This finding looks at the relationship between mothers' style of discipline and children's success.

The most successful children (as measured by their achievement test scores and teachers' ratings) had mothers who struck a balance between being warm and supportive and setting and enforcing clear limits on their children's behavior. The children who were least successful had mothers whose disciplinary style was extreme--either too harsh or too permissive, but, most often, unduly harsh and punitive.

Sample or Data Description
140 teen mothers and their first-born children who participated in the Family TIES (Trust, Information, Encouragement, and Support) starting in 1991.

Source
"Family Advocates' Perspectives on the Early Academic Success of Children Born to Low-Income Adolescent Mothers"
Luster, Tom
Bates, Laura, Vandenbelt, Marcia; and Nievar, Angela M.
Family Relations Vol. 53, Number 1. January, 2004. Page(s) 68-77.

FindingID: 6559