Discussion: The current study sought to identify the specific family environments that might characterize particular psychopathological disorders in youth. Results of this study indicate that there are two specific family environment variables in which the diagnostic groups differed. These variables were Laissez-Faire Family Style and Enmeshment. A closer inspection of these analyses indicated that youth with CD were more likely to characterize their family's discipline style as permissive, where rules in the family are nonexistent, ambiguous, or poorly communicated. This trend was also found in a number of other studies that compared CD youth with a normal control group (Farrington, 1979; Hetherington & Martin, 1972). Therefore, this study confirms previous research that a permissive and inconsistent discipline style is particularly characteristic of families of youth with CD, while contradicting other studies linking parents of CD youth with a rigid and controlling discipline style (Peiser & Heaven, 1996; Slee, 1996). Need Assignment Help?