Parenting is a process where the children are supported and promoted in all the domains of development from infancy to adulthood. Hence the study was taken up to know parenting and factors influencing parenting among urban and rural mothers from intact and single parent families from Bidar District. The sample comprised of 120 single mothers and 120 mothers from intact families from urban and rural areas of Bidar were selected using purposive proportionate random sampling method. The criteria fo