Children of liberal parents more likely to have mental issues – study

[rangerrebew]

2 Dec, 2023 17:04
 
Children of liberal parents more likely to have mental issues – study
Conservative parents have better quality relationships with their children, leading to better mental health, research has found
 
 
Teenage children of liberal parents are more likely to experience mental health problems, according to a study published Thursday by the Institute of Family Studies and Gallup. Liberal parents have poorer quality relationships with their offspring – the most important influence on a child’s mental development, according to the survey.

Explaining that political ideology is one of the strongest predictors of parenting style, study author Jonathan Rothwell noted that “conservative and very conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health.” 

“Liberal parents score the lowest, even worse than very liberal parents, largely because they are the least likely to successfully discipline their children,” the survey found. In contrast, it discovered that conservative parents are more likely to mete out discipline effectively while displaying affection and responding to the child’s needs.

https://www.rt.com/news/588401-liberal-parents-mental-illness-teens/

[SZonian]

It took a "study" to figure this out? 

[mountaineer]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Smokin Joe]

What isn't genetic is acquired. The question is one of how much medication has been applied to those kids that they did not need as their parents projected their own illnesses on their children?

[LMAO]

Liberals are always miserable. They seek to push their misery on other people. If you’re a liberal parent, what more captive audience do you have to push your misery onto than your own children?

[mountaineer]

Washington Examiner:

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."  ...

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."  ...