The Parenting Scale (PS; Arnold, O'Leary ... and a composite measure of parenting competence defined as the percentage of intervals where the parent engaged in praise, positive physical contact ...

A Greenlandic mother in Denmark had her newborn baby taken away just hours after giving birth for failing a "parenting competency test" that critics claim discriminates against Greenlandic parents.

The aim of this study was to assess the predictive validity of a new measure of parental knowledge: the Knowledge of Effective Parenting Scale (KEPS ... and behavioral competence of parents.