Parents’ educational style has a significant role in the formation of children’s personality. The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between parenting styles and children’s hardness and religious orientation. This is a descriptive correlational study that was performed on female high school students in Nowshahr city of Mazandaran province by cluster sampling method. The required information was collected using questionnaires of Schaefer’s parenting style, Azerbaijani religious orientation and Cubasa hardship. The data showed that there is no significant relationship between the four parenting styles with rigor and religious orientation; As a result, the main hypothesis of the study was not confirmed, but based on the side findings, there is a positive correlation between rigidity and religious orientation.