Child rearing practices and their effects by observing babies and small children psychologists try to identify the child rearing practices. That produce healthy well-adjusted adolescents and babies who receive much love and attention from their parents apparently are more likely to be warm and loving when they get older. By contrast, children, who are punished constantly and severely, tend to take on the role of punishers as when they have children of their own. Child rearing practices are investigated in families in which the mother is employed and in comparable families in which the mother is not employed. Mothers in intact, white, economically, families were interviewed. Child rearing practices are not related to work status when mother’s motivation and education are considered along with work status, associations with child rearing appear mothers who prefer to work but our of a sense of duty do not work report the most problems in the child rearing and contributing members of the society there is an important need to impact the knowledge to the needy people about child rearing practice, descriptive study was chosen to assess the knowledge on child rearing practice among working and non-working pregnant women. The present was conducted at saveetha medical college and hospital. Sample size is 100, 50 is working pregnant women 50 is non-working pregnant women. Under inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling technique, data was collected by using socio demographic variable. Structured questionnaire was provided to the selected samples to assess the knowledge on child rearing practice. Child rearing practice study shows that 75% of the mothers had inadequate knowledge on child rearing practice, 24% of mothers had moderately adequate knowledge, 6% of the mothers had adequate knowledge. Pregnant women must know about the child rearing practice during her pregnancy time. The study finding shows that, the working women have adequate knowledge on child rearing practice and inadequate knowledge among non-working women.