Editing Parenting (section)

==Factors that affect decisions==
[[Social class]], [[wealth]], [[culture]] and [[income]] have a very strong impact on what methods of child rearing parents use.<ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.2307/3088916 | last1 = Lareau | first1 = Annette | year = 2002 | title = Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Child Rearing in Black Families and White Families| journal = American Sociological Review | volume = 67 | issue = 5| pages = 747–76 | jstor = 3088916 }}</ref> Cultural values play a major role in how a parent raises their child. However, parenting is always evolving, as times, cultural practices, social norms, and traditions change. Studies on these factors affecting parenting decisions have shown just that.<ref>shizuka, P. (2019). Social Class, Gender, and Contemporary Parenting Standards in the United States: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment. Social Forces, 98(1), 31–58. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soy107</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = 20th Century Evolution of American Parenting Styles | url = http://www.parentradar.com/20th-century-evolution-of-american-parenting-styles | access-date = 11 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322061701/http://www.parentradar.com/20th-century-evolution-of-american-parenting-styles/ |archive-date=2016-03-22}}.</ref>

In psychology, the [[parental investment]] theory suggests that basic differences between males and females in parental investment have great adaptive significance and lead to gender differences in mating propensities and preferences.<ref name="Psychology: Themes and Variations">{{cite book|last1=Weiten|first1=W.|last2=McCann|first2=D.|title=Themes and Variations|year=2007|publisher=Thomson Wadsworth|location=Nelson Education Ltd|isbn=978-0-17-647273-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/psychologythemes0002weit}}</ref>