This study focused on effects of parent child relationship on delinquent behavior in Kamwokya Community and Naguru Remand Home in Kampala, Uganda. The study sought to establish the relationship between parent child relationship and delinquency and non-delinquency behaviours among children as an attempt to understand the externalized and internalized effects of the quality of parents’ relationships with children. In order to achieve the research objectives descriptive designed was adopted and self-administered questionnaire was served among fifty (50) respondents. The study found that to the large extent children live in broken families whereby, they either live in homes where there is one biological parent and then the stepparent. In such an environment, children are exposed to disruptive family arrangement thus accounting for multiple behavioral problems both internalized and externalized disorders. Majority of the participants stated that they were treated differently depending on gender or age; whereas, females were strictly treated yet males were loosely controlled. One of the outstanding effects of parent-child relationship in relation to delinquency was low levels of esteem among children
