Child Rearing Practices Among Families in Countryside Philippines

This paper discusses a study on child-rearing practices in a countryside Philippines, specifically Catbalogan City. The determination of rearing practices and the determination of factors influencing the styles were also tackled. Results were based on standardized parenting styles questionnaires and semi-structured questionnaire. The questionnaires were translated into the local dialect for easy understanding of the respondents. A total of 325 households were randomly chosen as respondents of this study. Data shows that parents in this countryside city is of permissive type while only about 1 in every hundred is either authoritarian or permissive-authoritarian style.Personal variateswere considered the highest influences to child rearing practices followed bybeliefs and values.