Across the World, Studies Have Shown That Parents Who Live

Across the world, studies have shown that parents who live close to subsistence levels adopt controlling parenting patterns for economic and safety reasons. This is support for what basic concept from the text?

A) Authoritative patterns of parenting are key to children's development and adjustment.
B) Poverty has many direct effects on the development of children.
C) Autonomy and independence are essential social competencies.
D) To fully explain developmental outcomes, there is a need to examine development and parenting practices within a broad developmental niche.