Parenting style and their influence on the transmission of religious and secular values

This study wishes to examine the different types of parenting styles with respect to their influence on the transmission process of religious versus secular values from parents to children in religious, secular and mixed (religious-secular) families. The study investigates parenting styles and their impact on the intergenerational transmission of values, among 211 Jewish families with heterogeneous religious-secular (R-S) parental dyads in comparison to family groups that are homogeneously religious (R-R) or homogenously secular (S-S). Results illustrate a correlation between Authoritative parenting style and permissive parenting style and child’s secular values in all four groups. With respect to religious values, the findings illustrate that the authoritarian parenting style will have a more significant relationship with child’s religious values than the permissive or authoritative parenting style. By focusing on mixed families, which remain underexplored in the literature, this study provides a unique lens on how value systems are negotiated and transmitted across generations in pluralistic societies.