Posted on 12/06/2023 4:01:19 PM PST by billorites
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 CDC 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,"
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For obvious reasons.
Apples don’t fall very far from the tree, especially when the trees are whackjob idiots
... so yeah, mental health problems...
Leftist find those things so bourgeois.
And eat dinner with your kids. Breakfast if possible but dinner for sure. Why is not totally known but food sharing is one of our oldest rituals for a reason.
That’s a brilliant observation.
I wonder if it’s possible to verify that?
Emile Durkheim in 1897 identified a cause of suicide most active in young people today. He called it “anomie,” normlessness, or loss of boundaries and norms. The woke destruction of sexual boundaries, limits and gender expectations due to liberal cultural decay has its effect on its primary victims, adolescents. When they most need something to anchor their fragile new identities, they get…tiktok telling them they don’t know whether they are male or female, and it shouldn’t matter. And it is drilled in by media, teachers, abusive parents, and peer pressure. As long as the Left is driving, millions of kids have no shot at a normal peaceful life.
Even if the kids are basically sane, exposure to the insanity of lefties can be contagious.
Thats because liberal parents are also more likely to suffer from mental disease.
Way ahead of the curve....April 12, 2005 book.
https://faithgateway.com/products/liberalism-is-a-mental-disorder-savage-solutions?currency=USD
Just wait for the current batch of young, woke lunatics to get a little older and become parents. Their kids are going to be very messed up. Check back in 25 years or so.
Because they grow up in an America hating, amoral, overeducated, can’t debate or think rationally nut house.
So mentally ill parents produce mentally ill children?
Knock me over with a feather.
That’s because mental illness is linked to hereditary so having libtard parents would raise the risk exponentially
As Rush often states, “you needed a ‘study’ to figure this out?”
Someone actually paid for someone to state the obvious. Then again, the ‘study’ was probably funded with other people’s money.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
That’s right.
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