Parenting Styles Affect Children's View On Marriage, Babies And Family As Adults, According To Experts

Parenting styles impact children's development as adults. Depending on the approach, the kids learn structure, values, discipline and other life skills from the way they are raised. A new study reveals that even children's view on marriage, having babies and building a family as adults are also influenced by their moms and dads.

The research, which was undertaken by Japanese experts and published in the report "Fundamental Research for Sustainable Economic Growth in Japan" through Reiti, looked into fundamental parenting styles common among Japanese parents. They underscored five different approaches to parenting to determine its impact on children, which are supportive, strict, indulgent, uninvolved and abusive parenting styles.

Some 10,000 respondents were enlisted in an online survey for the study's data, Science Daily reports. The results helped experts determine the respondents' attitude towards their parents' approach and their own enthusiasm and aspirations for starting a family.

Among the five parenting styles, it's parents who use the supportive approach to raising kids who are most ideal role models for their children. In this family dynamics, the kids grow up as highly-independent adults with high trust in people that they also show high interest in having children or getting married.

"People with a supportive upbringing are more likely to see their parents as positive role models," project head Professor Nishimura Kazuo said. "Our findings show that this attitude is also linked to higher marriage rates, and a desire for larger numbers of children.

Parents whose style in raising kids are on the other end of the spectrum (abusive) could influence their children to believe that marriage is not for them or that they can't be ideal partners. Their parents have not been positive role models for raising a family. Data for the study was presented at Kobe University.