The relation between a parent and a child is indeed the most important and certainly the blessed of all. A child finds his enduring support in parents while for the latter; kids’ well-being is the sole aim. However, this wonderful relation often gets marred due to various factors pertaining to different aspects of life.

And when this relation is affected, it directly impacts the child’s physical, emotional and mental growth. When a child-parent relationship is disturbed, it leads to many of the behavioural problems in kids. In the present scenario, there are many parents who can be heard talking about their not so cordial relationship with kids. There has also been a rise in cases where kids have been reported of behavioural issues. Though these may appear as different issues from the top, but they are significantly connected. A poorly nurtured parent-child relation is what leads to behavioural problems in kids.

Let us understand what all factors affect this relationship and what can be the measures taken to prevent the same.

Culture and Religion

Different cultures and religions form their own ways of parenting. And hence the parenting style, affecting the parent-child relation in a number of ways, as:

• Parents holding onto authoritarian traditions and values cause conflict with the child
   
• Inter cultural marriages tends to cause conflict as there is differences in parenting styles and values
   
• Some cultures expect their children to strictly follow the things as advised by the parents. This doesn’t let kids have their own freedom and space
   
• Too orthodox atmosphere leads child to develop resentment and a rebellious nature 

Gender

• When setting limits, girls and boys are often treated differently by their parents
   
• Child’s gender affects how a child is raised and the relationship he or she will have with parents
   
• Gender makes them set different set of expectation from a boy and a girl
   
• In many families, gender discrimination leads to poor psychological development of child 

Socioeconomic Status

It has a direct impact on the living standard, earnings, profession, place of living, and education, which apparently affects the child-parent relationship too in the following ways:
 

• Parents with low SES work longer hours thus affecting the bonding time which they have with their children
   
• They even fail to provide the basic amenities and thus make way for verbal conflicts
   
• SES is often cyclical
   
• Income also tends to determine the resources used to maintain relationships such as family holidays

Style of Parenting

Parenting styles are inspired by civilization, upbringing of parents, religion & traditions, media, family, friends and societal prospects. It can cause difference between children and parents.

In case of authoritarian parenting, kids get no space at all which makes them drift away from their parents. This parenting style subjects them to punishment when making a mistake and gives no room for learning or correcting the mistake in a constructive way. Similar things happen with permissive parenting where parents exercise very little control over their children. Here too, kids never get to learn the things vital for their overall development.

Preventing the Problems

The only way to keep these factors at bay and prevent them creating any problem that can harm your relationship with your kids is to nurture the relation in a positive manner. Understand the root causes and make a joint effort to resolve issues. Healthy discussions and talks are one great way of bridging the gap of communication and keeping the relation intact.