Understanding what parenting is like for adolescents in Peru is a pending task. Parenting styles theory (Baumrind, 1971), one of the most legitimized theories to address the issue and developed from the study of Western societies, may be poorly descriptive of what happens in the complex, diverse, and exclusion-ridden Peruvian reality. "Being an Adolescent in Peru," a research project that includes two qualitative studies (one pre-pandemic and another one post-pandemic) and a quantitative study, has as one of its objectives to characterize how Peruvian adolescents experience parenting by their caregivers and its relationship with other developmental variables. The two axes proposed by Baumrind (1971), support and control, were used to address parenting. After analyzing qualitative and quantitative data from the study, we found that although adolescents perceive a high level of support from their caregivers, this perception coexists with dynamics of overloaded responsibilities for them and a sense of debt to their parents, which they will repay by pursuing higher education to lift the family out of poverty. In other words, adolescents' life plans are built around the economic return they will provide to their homes. At the same time, they ask little of their caregivers in terms of support. Regarding control, we identified that adolescents perceive the rules in their homes and the limited supervision they receive as a form of caregiving. They do not consider this way of parenting to interfere with their autonomy or privacy.