Parenting Style and Delinquency

From a new parenting research blog -- in brief, a recent meta-analysis of parenting research studies from 1950 to 2007 indicates that authoritative parenting style is associated with less delinquency than authoritarian parenting style (nothing in the blog post about neglecting/rejecting):

Parenting Styles and Delinquency

"A review of: Hoeve, M., Dubas, J., Eichelsheim, V., Laan, P., Smeenk, W., & Gerris, J. (2009). The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology DOI: 10.1007/s10802-009-9310-8

How appropriate to begin the Child Psychology and Parenting Research blog with a review of probably the largest meta-analysis ever conducted on the association between parenting styles and delinquency. A meta-analysis consists of a statistical review of the previously published (and sometimes unpublished) literature on a particular topic. For example, hundreds of articles have examined the association between harsh discipline practices and negative outcomes, such as aggression and delinquency. Some studies have shown that harsh discipline practices are associated with worse outcomes when compared to non-harsh methods. Yet, other studies have failed to find such association, or argued that other factors are at play (culture, warmth, etc). So the question remains, when you look at all the results of all the previous studies combined, what what do you see?

This is one of the questions explored by Hoeve et al (in press) in a recently published meta-analysis of the relationship between parenting and delinquency. They analyzed data from 161 published manuscripts conducted between 1950 and 2007."