Relationship between Social Maturity of Parents and Family Relationships as Perceived by Teenagers

The present study investigated relationship of social maturity of parents with parental relationship with their teenage sons and daughters. Families for the present study were selected from four zones of Ludhiana city. Only nuclear families from middle and upper-middle class where both working parents were at least graduate and had one teenaged son and daughter were purposively selected for the present study. The total sample comprised of 400 respondents (100 of each fathers, mothers, sons and daughters). Each selected teenaged son and daughter was examined separately for his/her relationship with parents. Various levels of social maturity of the parents were assessed and it was found that.