Examples Of Permissive Parents

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The Walls are Permissive Parents
In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls the Walls family is a very peculiar family that are parented in a permissive style because they have very little rules, the children don’t tell them everything, and because as parents they look at life like a bid adventure. The Walls family is a very adventurous family that doesn’t really think about their actions because “they have low expectations and maturity” (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). The shooting the kids had with Billy Deel is a great example why Rex and Rosemary are permissive parents, they give the children no punishment for their actions. Permissive parenting is showed because the children don’t tell them everything. Jeannette didn’t tell Rosemary