The Jobs You're Most Likely to Inherit From Your Mother and Father

When children choose what to be when they grow up, they often follow in their fathers’ footsteps. But mothers are powerful, too.

Working sons of working fathers are, on average, 2.7 times as likely as the rest of the population to have the same job but only two times as likely to have the same job as their working mothers, according to an analysis by The New York Times, one of the first to look at mothers and daughters in addition to fathers and sons. Daughters are 1.8 times as likely to have the same job as their mothers and 1.7 times as likely to have the same job as their fathers.

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Sara Genn, a painter and singer, is the daughter of Robert Genn, a Canadian landscape painter. “He had a studio next to our house, so it was something that we always grew up with,” she said. “His philosophy was just make it part of everyday life and make materials readily available.”