Permissive Child Abuse
There are no signs of physical abuse from his parents. His parents’ parenting style is permissive and show little or no signs of control of his behavior. Mary and Joseph have been nurturing to John because of his witness of his grandparent’s accident. Mary stated in the first few visits they use the time out method for John and it rarely works because John becomes argumentative. According to Broderick (2015), permissive parents exercise less behavior control by putting few maturity demands on their children especially when they display anger and aggressive behavior. Both parents drink alcohol heavily and John witnessed his father abuse his mother verbally and state often he never wanted children. Two years ago, Joseph separated from the