Parental Educational Practices refer to the parents' education mode of socializing, controlling or developing values and attitudes in their offspring. Literature names such educational practices Parental Style. This study has used the Parental Style Inventory by Gomide (2003) which assesses two positive practices (positive monitoring and moral behavior) and five negative practices (negligence, physical abuse, negative monitoring, inconsistent punishment and slacked discipline), and its goal was to investigate if the children's perception of parental practices were similar to their parents. Parental Style Inventory was applied in 41 families of law-offensive youngsters. Results have shown that children realize the family ongoing educational practices as their mothers do (Z=1,44; p=0,15), and their fathers (Z=0,65; p=0,51). The families' (child, father and mother) Parental Style Inventory average was negative, which indicates they are risk families. Parental Style identification in risk families can provide important subsidies for parental guidance and training programs, both in preventive terms and for those families that have already had adolescent's law-infringement problems.
parental attitude; juvenile delinquency; educational practices; educational psychology
