Culture provides additional context to one's environment. Describe the cultural differences in parenting styles using examples.

With an authoritative parenting style viewed as desirable, families in the United States and Western Europe tend to encourage independence, competition, and freedom of expression (Chen & Eisenberg, 2013; Spicer et al., 2012). However many families with Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Native American, and Hispanic backgrounds believe in a more collectivist orientation, valuing obedience, deference to authority figures (especially parents), and the importance of the family (Leavell, Tamis-LeMonda, Ruble, Zosuls, & Cabrera, 2012; Spicer et al., 2012). In these cultures, parents combine high demands for obedience with close, supportive parent-child relationships. In addition, many of these cultures treat female children more protectively, tend to be more demanding, and are less likely to grant autonomy to their female children (Dixon, Graber, & Brooks-Gunn, 2008; Domenech, Rodriguez, Donovick, & Crowley, 2009).