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UK: Poor Parenting Skills Lead to Misbehaving Children
A new government study has found that children with “negative” parents in the UK are twice as likely to display serious anti-social behavior as they develop.
A new report by the Department of Education has revealed that parents with poor parenting skills are twice as likely to raise misbehaving children, identifying a link between negativity and antisocial behavior.
Research shows that “harsh and inconsistent” discipline in the home is breeding a generation of young children with anger management problems, poor attention spans and low levels of literacy, writes Graeme Paton at the Telegraph.
This link between antisocial behavior and parenting skills “remained true even after a range of socioeconomic factors were taken into account”, says the report. This suggests that middle-class children are just as likely to “go off the rails” as poor children, if subjected to poor parenting.
The study said:
“Across a range of measures, an association was consistently found between negative parenting and child anti-social behavior.
“The association between negative parenting and child anti-social behavior still held after controlling for demographic factors including ethnicity, parental education and being a single-parent family.”
The Department of Education study called “How is parenting style related to child anti-social behavior?” examined 278 families with children aged four-to-seven living in inner-city areas.
The report recommends “positive parenting” programs that give mothers and fathers a grounding in how to bring up their children properly using the consistent use of praise and rewards and a high level of involvement with children’s everyday life.
The report identified negative parenting as a failure to adequately supervise children, inconsistent approaches to discipline and the use of smacking and other physical punishments, writes Paton.
Researchers said:
“Since the study has confirmed the link between negative parenting and child antisocial behavior in England today, the implications are that it is appropriate to offer parents parenting programs that have been shown to reduce coercive parenting practices, improve positive parenting, and reduce child antisocial behavior.
“Similar processes operate with younger children from age two onwards, for whom parenting help would also be beneficial.”
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Shocking!
Yeah, isn’t it? I can’t wait to see the subject of their next study. Water? Wet? Sun? Hot? Should be illuminating.
It is always easy to make fun of research that uncovers stuff that seems obvious. But what we don’t know is how much of an impact poor parenting skills have on student behaviour. It’s useful to isolate the particular skills that seem lacking so a solution other than sanctimonious tsking in comments could be implemented to help these poor kids.
Identifying what you are suggesting is no more easily done than identifying and quantifying the skills that make a teacher a good teacher. Therefore, teacher evaluations should have no gray areas. But, in fact they do as will any parental skills evaluation system you can come with. It’s actually much simpler. Act with integrity, develop a solid code of ethics and live them. You will then treat people right, getting more out of your students and more out of your children.
This sure sounds like correlational research, implying causation…
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