Introduction: Against an ongoing pattern of aggressive, defiant, and pessimistic behaviors without significant infringements on the rights of others is known as defiant disorder. One of the most common reasons children and adolescents are referred for psychiatric evaluation is disruptive behavior, particularly oppositional patterns and aggressive behaviors.

Aims: Find out what style of parenting practices is most commonly associated with cases of ODD. Comparison between the parenting styles of the parents visiting the child psychiatric OPD, with those coming to the paediatric OPD.

Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Psychiatry and Paediatrics departments of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, from March 2020 to October 2021. A total of 60 patients were included, comprising 30 diagnosed with ODD and 30 from the Paediatric OPD.

Result: The distribution of case permissiveness differed significantly between the groups, with more permissive cases in the control group (14 vs. 5) and more non-permissive cases in the intervention group (25 vs. 16), yielding a statistically significant difference (p = 0.0125).

Conclusion: The age distribution of the comparison and control groups was similar throughout all age ranges in this study looking at the relationship between parenting style and behavioral issues in kids and teens with ODD, and no discernible changes were found