<p>Parenting refers to parents’ behavior when interacting with their children to educate and discipline them. This study aims at investigating parenting and its relationship to children´s behavior, quality of marital interaction and impact of work on the family. Parents of children aged between 2 and 10 years in general evaluated the experience of being a parent as rewarding, laborious and gratifying. The majority of participants reported not having adjustment problems to parenting and feeling confident in such role. Children’s scores fell in the average range with absence of scores suggestive of behavioral and emotional problems in children, except for peer problems. Correlations were found among high parental consistency, low level of coercive practices and parental stress, high level of happiness in marital relationship, trust and support received and income equivalent to 4-8 Minimum Wages.</p>