Introduction to parenting styles. In order to clarify the roles of the parents and the effects that come from their practice of different upbringing styles, the parents are introduced to the basic characteristics of several parenting styles: authoritative, permissive, uninvolved and democratic. Usually, one of the styles or elements of different styles dominate with one of the parents. Also, the two parents never have the same parenting style, and even if they do, they never practice it the same