The parenting style builds on widely used, internationally recognised parenting typology developed by Diana Baumrind (1971, 1996) and Maccoby & Martin (1983). These authors based the four best known parenting styles which are: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and unengaged, on two parenting dimensions, namely demandingness (expectations and boundaries) and responsiveness (warmth and support).

Meanwhile, Requisite Parenting is founded on three dimensions: demandingness, responsiveness, and situatedness. Black parenting is situated within a set of unique structural challenges such as racism and poverty that make raising Black children more complex. These inequalities require the dimension of ‘situatedness’, and differentiate Requisite Parenting from other established parenting styles.

*Requisite parenting© (Okpokiri 2024) develops parenting styles by Baumrind (1996) & Maccoby & Martin (1983)