bad parenting
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbadandparenting
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bad
adjective
uk/bæd/us/bæd/
unpleasant and ...
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parenting
noun[U]
uk/ˈpeə.rən.tɪŋ/us/ˈper.ən.t̬ɪŋ/
the raising of children and all the responsibilities and activities that are involved ...
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(Definition ofbadandparentingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Those factors can tip a family that is carrying out what could be described as "just about good enough" parenting intobadparenting.
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A large number of people wrote to us suggesting the reasons forbadparenting.
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That has been recognised by the tremendous growth of interest in parenting, in the need for parent education and in the consequences ofbadparenting.
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I was about to refer tobadparenting, but that implies that on occasions parents are acting deliberately to the disadvantage of their children.
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Parents are often told that the problem is simplybadparenting, and that if they took control, their children would be better behaved.
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Far too many cases ofbadparentingbring out evil in young people.
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They are asked to pick up the pieces of all sorts of problems that are the fault ofbadparentingor whatever.
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Marriage is not, however, the answer to the problem ofbadparentingand unhappy families.
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Again, there is a danger at the moment that we assume that all crime is the result ofbadparenting.
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A child whose parents are married but are deeply unhappy—perhaps fighting over the father's drinking—will experiencebadparenting.
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The one incontestable fact to have emerged from research is the direct causal link between inadequate or downrightbadparentingand a predisposition to delinquency in children.
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Other issues she has written/spoken of are unruly children, the behaviour of which she attributes tobadparenting, inconsiderate cellphone users, and copyright violators.
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He blames her ofbadparenting, while she continues to blame the adultery for everything that is going wrong in the family.
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