Kids Likely To Develop Mental Health Problems Due To Harsh Discipline: Study
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Do you often shout at your kids or isolate them when they misbehave? If so, your kids are more likely at risk of developing lasting mental health problems, according to a new study. The study of over 7,500 Irish children, reported in the journal Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, showed that children exposed to `hostile` parenting at age three were 1.5 times likelier than their peers to have mental health symptoms that qualified as `high risk` by age nine.
"The fact that one in 10 children were in the high-risk category for mental health problems is a concern and we ought to be aware of the part parenting may play in that," said Ioannis Katsantonis, a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge in the UK. "We are not for a moment suggesting that parents should not set firm boundaries for their children's behaviour, but it is difficult to justify frequent harsh discipline, given the implications for mental health...
