Family conflicts affect the future adult life of the child
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Parents who organize home battles with each other in front of children, pass these habits inheritance. To this conclusion came the researchers from the United States.
Rashmi Shetgiri and his colleagues at the Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas organized 12 focus groups of students of all ages. The scientists were interested in how much the family quarrels between the parents of these children affected their own attitude to life.
It turned out that the more often fathers and mothers argued and quarreled among themselves, clarifying the relationship in conflicts, the higher the risk that their children would also learn this habit. Students from these families more often proved their point of view with their fists, participating in conflicts.
"It is very important for parents to be an example for children, they should not forget that family quarrels affect the future adult life of a child who is learning how to defend his point of view," says Dr. Shetgiri .-- If the father raises his hand on his mother, then his the son, too, will not see anything reprehensible in such behavior. "
As a child, a child starts to fight to protect himself, but in adolescence such fights are fraught with stories with criminal consequences. And a significant number of young prisoners imprisoned for crimes related to cruelty and violence were just such "fighting" parents.
These studies are presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Community in Boston. Scientists have once again proved that most children perceive as role models of their parents, although formally they can relate to eternally quarreling dads and moms extremely negatively.
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