In order to see the relation of certain family background variables viz, social class, family occupation, family system, family size and birth-order with perceived parental behaviours. 120 male adolescent college students of inter-mediate classes were administered Ojha's Parental Behaviour Questionnaire. The results indicated that lower class adolescents receive hostile-authoritarian parental treatment, whereas upper and middle class adolescents experience loving-permissive parental treatment. Adolescents of entrepreneurial families perceive their parents more permissive, while adolescents of bureaucratic families find their parents more restrictive. The joint family system is characterized by hostile-restrictive child-rearing, whereas nuclear family by loving-permissive child-rearing. In the small family, parents display permissive and loving treatment, while in the large family they seem to be rather restrictive, rejecting and neglecting. The first-born are more loved by parents, whereas the later-born are more rejected.