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Parenting practices vary across cultures as Western, American and Asian cultures have entirely different kind of approaches towards the process of socialization. Contemporary Socio-psychological researches have highlighted parental acceptance and rejection as one of the major contributor in developing behavioural outcome among young children. In order to understand the parenting practices in Pakistani indigenous culture, an in-depth scientific enquiry was required that how parental acceptance and rejection dimensions of parenting practices manifest the social and anti-social behavioral outcomes among young children. The cross-sectional study was conducted in Lahore, an educational hub, socio-economically diverse, and the second largest city of the country. The sample comprised 816 male students (emerging youth) from public sector colleges of Lahore, Pakistan by employing proportional allocation due to unequal enrollments at each respective college. The results indicated that perceived parental rejection accounts 40.3% variations in violent behavioural outcome while warmth parenting practices accounts for 48.2% variations in self-confidence among students. The study suggested that there is a consistent need to promote the positive parenting interventions, such as increase in parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude, parent-child interaction, and parental attitudes, which may cause to improve in the prevalent parenting practices for reducing the risk factors in developmental outcomes of young children.

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