Cultural practices influence the activities of everyday life and are re-shaped overtime by socio-economic trends, history and family circumstances. Starting with Bronfennbrenner's (1986) concept of nested spheres of influence on individual well-being, the authors developed this working model using both regionally contextualised understandings of the interactions between young people's well-being and that of their families and communities (e.g. Dawes et al. While the scope of this study could not permit a full exploration of all interactions between the macro-level driving influences and parenting, it is able to demonstrate that the activities and relationships that constitute 'parenting' in any given context are both directly and indirectly influenced by wider socio-cultural, economic and political forces that change overtime.