Psychological Bulletin, Vol 151(9), Sep 2025, 1170-1195; doi:10.1037/bul0000494
Estimates of intergenerational stability in parenting mechanisms differ within and across studies. This preregistered meta-analysis synthesized the results of longitudinal three-generation studies that measured parenting in two generations of parents with minors. Three-level random-effects analyses included 408 effect sizes from 24 data sets, reported in 51 peer-reviewed articles published until November 2021 (sample size: mean N = 373.32). The results showed that the intergenerational stability in parenting is low on average (r = .12, 95% confidence interval [.09, .16], p