PERMISSIVE

[adjective]A person or society that is permissive allows behaviour which other people might disapprove of.It's a very permissive school where the children are allowed to do whatever they like.She wished her parents had a more permissive attitude towards smoking.He claims that society has been far too permissive towards drug taking.(UK and ANZ esp. disapproving) The permissive society is the type of society that has existed in most of Europe, Australia and N America since the 1960s, in which there is a great amount of freedom of behaviour, esp. sexual freedom.