Parenting Style and Altruistic Behavior of Adolescents’ life

The growth of industrialization and consequent urbanization of life gives rise to a commercial outlook to life. For the present day generation, the prime importance of life is success, success at any cost. Modern society is full of complexity especially for adolescents because, this stage is turbulent, but crucial. As adolescents perceive their parents to be old fashioned they tend to become rebellious. This acculturation gap is a factor that may influence parent-adolescent conflict and that has been linked with negative outcomes in adolescence. On the other hand, in a human society, we expect that people will learn to cooperate, to live together, to care for others and to empathize with others’ sorrows. Conjunctively, we also expect and hope for a peaceful world devoid of violence. So, parents play an important role in promoting and fostering altruistic nature in their adolescents. Thus, early emergence of altruism protects children against development of antisocial tendencies and destructive behaviors. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to ensure that this stock of altruistic tendencies can rightly be channeled through the right kind of parenting, so that adolescents can grow into humane citizens.