Short answers, pulled from the story.
Haim Abraham wrote in 2017 that a family is what you make it and extends far beyond biological images. Governments and society often step into roles traditionally held by blood relatives to care for orphaned or abandoned children.
Developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind proposed three main parenting styles during the late 1960s with work appearing in Genetic Psychology Monographs in 1967. Her research later appeared in Developmental Psychology in 1971.
Indigenous American communities use storytelling to teach children important values and life lessons while personifying animals and objects. Navajo families focus heavily on respect for all things through nonverbal communication and early morning runs under any weather conditions.
Adolescents face high risk where newfound freedoms open or close life opportunities drastically because the emotional center of the brain is fully developed but the rational frontal cortex has not matured fully yet. Parents often feel isolated when parenting adolescents who increase time spent with peers.
About 40% of all pregnancies are unplanned resulting in over 30 million babies born each year globally. Social class, wealth, culture, and income strongly impact what methods of child rearing parents use.