How can I get "total_results" number of entries filtered using the parents tag?

Question

I have a channel entries tag that displays one entry form the "markets" channel. Within that, I want to display article entries. The "articles"(parent) channel has a relationship field to select which "markets"(child) entry. But, I have other channels that also have a relationship field pointing to "markets" entries. So when I use the code below to display "parents" from a specific channel and field, it works fine. BUT, if that results in 3 entries being returned, the parents_total_results tag doesn't return 3, it returns a higher number. Is there any way to get a number of the entries returned from the parents tag?

{exp:channel:entries channel="markets" disable="categories|member_data|category_fields|pagination" sort="asc" limit="1" dynamic="yes" require_entry="yes"}
        {parents field="articlemarket" channel="articles" limit="3" sort="desc" orderby="date"}
        {parents:total_results}
        {/parents}

Answer 1

I'm wondering if it's a bug. As your results total is 8, are there actually 8 parent entries across channels/entries for this particular entry?

Try this code, should pull in all parent titles:

{parents}
{parents:title}<br>
{if parents:count == parents:total_results}
 Total: {parents:total_results}
{/if}
{/parents}

Answer 2

Mike have you tried removing the field= parameter? you shouldn't really need it unless you're pulling data from multiple relationship fields in the articles channel.

{parents channel="articles" limit="3" sort="desc" orderby="date"}
{parents:total_results}
{/parents}