The phrase "adequate parenting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level of parenting that meets the necessary standards or requirements for raising children effectively.
Example: "The study highlights the importance of adequate parenting in a child's emotional and social development."
Alternatives: "sufficient parenting" or "appropriate parenting".
Information and skills needed for adequate parenting can be addressed in parent programs to reduce parental stress.
For 12 years, Karen Matthews, mother of seven, wobbled precariously along the line separating adequate parenting and child neglect.
The girl, known as "Child B", was placed for adoption in August after a ruling by a judge at a private family court hearing in Oxford found that her mother was incapable of providing adequate parenting or setting boundaries.
In any humane country, Ames would have had legally mandated adequate parenting time with her newborn children.
Zayas wrote afterward that he believed "the continued detention of this child and her mother is jeopardizing Estrella's developmental trajectory as well as Melida's capacity to provide adequate parenting to her daughter".
Adequate parenting related to these dimensions may require that parents pursue a dynamic rather than fixed balance between safety and expansion and between guidance and autonomy [ 4].
The law only requires that you be an adequate parent.
Parents try to present a "good and adequate parent self" by publicly disciplining their children (Brown, 1979) or demonstrating their moral responsibility through apologising to others present or accounting for their children's behaviour (Ryan, 2008).
And even if the marriage survives, children may lack adequate parental attention when one parent is preoccupied with sex on the computer and the other is preoccupied with the cybersex addict.
The review concludes that the family's history was characterised by "neglectful parenting interspersed with periods of adequate parental care".
39 What these results reveal is that parental behaviours are significantly less adequate when parents are separated.
