adolescent distress, lower self-esteem, lower grade point average, greater drug use, and greater delinquency20 You can positively influence your daughter’s future behavior by picking and then living out of the democratic style. This style will help you set the goal for your parenting: providing healthy support and healthy control for your daughter. Olson and DeFrain define support as the “the amount of caring, closeness, and affection that a parent exhibits or gives to a child,” and they define