PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES: STYLES AND PRACTICES OF PARENTS IN MURTHA, OCCIDENTAL MINDORO

ABSTRACT: Different parenting styles and practices can lead to different child development and childoutcomes. Thus, the Occidental Mindoro State College, through the College of Arts, Sciences, and Technologypursued a study on how parents from Murtha, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro fulfil their parental responsibilitiesthrough different styles and practices.This study used descriptive research design in interpreting the data. Aquestionnaire was used to gather the needed information and was facilitated during the conduct of the extensionprogram at Murtha, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. A total of 45 parent- respondents were chosen through arandom sampling. The result shows that the parents have varied styles in rearing their children and was foundout that there is no significant relationship between the parenting styles and the practices employed by theparents to their children.

Keywords-extent of parenting, parental responsibilities, parenting practices, parenting styles, positive parenting