Children with liberal parents more likely to suffer mental health problems: Study

[drudge X]

I would admit myself to the asylum for protection if my parents scream death to America and long live communism daily.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

My parents were strict and that is why I'm mentally stable.

me too....you know when you got that look that your ass was grass

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

me too....you know when you got that look that your ass was grass

could you imagine hearing bout trump all day long???.lololol

their only function is to brainwash their brats off a cliff

 

[Libby von H]

As has been famously said, liberalism is a mental disease.


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Children who grow up in politically liberal households are more likely to suffer mental health problems than their conservative peers, according to a new study.

An Institute for Family Studies-Gallup report found that "political ideology is one of the strongest predictors" of which caregiving styles a parent adopts, and conservative parents are associated with the best mental health outcomes for their children.

"Conservative and very conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health," study author Jonathan Rothwell, who is also the principal economist at Gallup and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote. "Liberal parents score the lowest, even worse than very liberal parents, largely because they are the least likely to successfully discipline their children."

Conservative parents have several key distinctions in their relationships with their children that inform mental health outcomes, Rothwell explained, including being able to "effectively discipline their children, while also displaying affection and responding to their needs." The right-leaning parents also have better quality relationships with their children, "characterized by fewer arguments, more warmth, and a stronger bond."

Political ideology is just one predictive factor in the overarching conclusion of the study, which is that having high-quality relationships between children and their parents is the most important factor in achieving positive mental health outcomes.

The study comes as adolescent mental health has plummeted over the course of the last decade, a free fall marked by increased suicide, depression, and anxiety, among other problems.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics have offered recommendations like better funding for psychiatric services, the study notes the CDC's solutions "almost completely ignore the most important known determinant of youth mental health: parent-child relationships."

The best mental health results come from "warm, responsive, and rule-bound, disciplined parenting," Rothwell said. This style is otherwise known as "authoritative."

Negative parenting styles include "authoritarian," which is characterized by being "cold or harsh," and the "permissive" style, which lacks proper discipline.

Socioeconomic status did not appear to dictate results, which "may be shocking to many highly educated Americans who were taught to believe that socioeconomic status dictates everything good in life," the economist continued, adding, "Income doesn’t buy better parenting, and more highly educated parents do not score better, either."


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Children with liberal parents more likely to suffer mental health problems: Study - Washington Examiner

Mental Health Children with liberal parents more likely to suffer mental health problems: Study By Breccan F. Thies, Investigative Reporter December 01, 2023 07:08 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Mental Health Children with liberal parents more likely to suffer mental health problems...

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Most evident with homosexual same-sex parents

Compared with off-spring from married, intact mother/father homes, children raised in same-sex homes are markedly more likely to…

• Experience poor educational attainment
• Report overall lower levels of happiness, mental and physical health.
• Have impulsive behavior
• Be in counseling or mental health therapy (2xs)
• Suffer from depression (by large margins)
• Have recently thought of suicide (significantly)
• Identify as bisexual, lesbian or gay
• Have male on male or female on female sex partners (dramatically higher)
• Currently be in a same-sex romantic relationship (2x to 3x more likely)
• Be asexual (females with lesbian parents)
• As adults, be unmarried; much more likely to cohabit
• As adults, more likely to be unfaithful in married or cohabiting relationships
• Have a sexually transmitted infection (STI)
• Be sexually molested (both inappropriate touching and forced sexual act)
• Feel relationally isolated from bio-mother and -father (Although lesbian-parented children do feel close to their bio-mom – not surprisingly – they are not as close as children with a bio-mom married to father)
• Be unemployed or part-time employed as young adults
• As adults, currently be on public assistance or sometime in their childhood
• Live in homes with lower income levels
• Drink with intention of getting drunk
• To smoke tobacco and marijuana
• Spend more time watching TV
• Have frequency of arrests
• Have pled guilty to minor legal offense