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These are among the major findings of the nationally representative survey of 3,757 U.S. parents with children younger than 18, conducted Sept. 20-Oct. 2, 2022, using the Center’s American Trends Panel. 1 Other findings from the survey: Parents often don’t adhere to a specific parenting style.
Researchers have categorized parenting styles into various groups—typically 3, 4, or 5 psychological constructs. However, this discussion focuses on 4 main categories—authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved.
New research includes ‘domain-specific’ models that describe parents as flexibly deploying different practices depending on their goals, children’s needs, and the types of behaviors towards which parenting is directed. These trends are described, and directions for future research are discussed.
73% millennial parents believe their parenting style is better than past generations. 3 in 4 millennial parents practice gentle parenting. Nearly half (46%) of millennial parents feel burned out.
What are the four major parenting styles? How can a parent’s style predict a child’s future relationships? How can mothers and fathers tell what their parenting style is?
American parents across demographic groups say being a parent is central to who they are, but the ways they approach parenting – and the concerns they have about their children – vary in some significant ways between mothers and fathers as well as across generations, and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
A series of 4 (parenting styles) × 2 (child gender) analyses of covariance was conducted to explore the links between four parenting styles and parent–adolescent relationships. At the same time, we also explored if adolescents’ expectation for behavior autonomy and endorsement of parental authority differed as a function of adolescents ...
Hispanic parents (36%) are more likely than White (24%), Black (25%) and Asian (21%) parents to say they praise their children too much rather than criticizing them too much, but about half or more across racial and ethnic groups say neither of these describes their parenting style.
A majority of Americans who are currently parents of at least one child under 18 say they have an authoritative parenting style or a gentle parenting style (51% each), 26% identify their style as authoritarian, 18% as permissive, 15% as helicopter, and 12% as uninvolved.
How do the parenting styles differ on a philosophical level, and what specific behaviors do researchers use to classify a caregiver’s style? Are the resulting classifications accurate or reliable? Why is it wrong to assume that parenting styles are stable, clear-cut, or the same in all cultures?