After Years of Believing That a Child's Nature Dictates the Best

After years of believing that a child's nature dictates the best approach to parenting, new theorists began identifying other influences of a child's development and more effective parenting strategies were proposed. Adler suggested:

A) That we needed an increased awareness of the impact of family relationships on a child's development and advocated that autocratic parent-child relationships be replaced by democratic parent-child relationships.
B) That there are multiple influences on parental childrearing behaviors, including the children themselves, the parents' families of origin, the community in which the family lives, and the culture in which the family is a part.