Report: Conservative parents more likely to raise mentally healthy teens

flgator2 · Dec 8, 2023

Report: Conservative parents more likely to raise mentally healthy teens (carolinajournal.com)

Conservative and very conservative parents are more likely to raise mentally healthy teens compared to liberal parents, according to a new study from the Institute for Family Studies and Gallup.

In contrast, liberal parents are more likely to have a permissive parenting style and “are the least likely to successfully discipline their children.”

“[C]onservative parents enjoy higher quality relationships with their children, characterized by fewer arguments, more warmth, and a stronger bond, according to both parent and child reporting,” the report concluded.

Importantly, household income, parental education, and race and ethnicity are largely unrelated to the quality of parenting and mental health outcomes for teens, the report found.

This explains why liberals are always angry

gatorchamps960608 · Dec 8, 2023

1. Trash source
2. You're one of the angriest guys here

GatorKP · Dec 8, 2023

Good article. Thanks for the post.

G8R92 · Dec 8, 2023

Importantly, household income, parental education, and race and ethnicity are largely unrelated to the quality of parenting and mental health outcomes for teens, the report found.
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So white, uneducated Trumpers are the best parents? Duly noted.

flgator2 · Dec 8, 2023

gatorchamps960608 said: ↑

1. Trash source
2. You're one of the angriest guys here
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What are you talking about Angry libbie #1? I'm a conservative and have great relationships with my kids, have no reason to be angry.
I see this article touched a nerve with you, not surprising truth hurts don't it

BobK89 · Dec 8, 2023

A study from the Institute of Family Studies that may or may not be the best source. Take with a grain of salt.

GatorRade · Dec 8, 2023

This kind of science is tough to evaluate. I can say that there is some legitimate reason to suspect many parents have become overly accommodating, as argued by Haidt and Lukianoff in The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt has an upcoming book on the current surge in anxiety and depression that I think will be worth checking out.

The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt

mrhansduck · Dec 8, 2023

GatorRade said: ↑

This kind of science is tough to evaluate. I can say that there is some legitimate reason to suspect many parents have become overly accommodating, as argued by Haidt and Lukianoff in The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt has an upcoming book on the current surge in anxiety and depression that I think will be worth checking out.

The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt
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I haven't studied this stuff, but this feels accruate to me.

The Anxious Generation offers an explanation by telling two stories. The first is about the decline of the play-based childhood, which began in the 1980s and accelerated in the ‘90s. All mammals need free play, and lots of it, to wire up their brains during childhood to prepare them for adulthood. But many parents in Anglo countries began to reduce children’s access to unsupervised outdoor free play out of media-fueled fears for their safety, even though the “real world” was becoming increasingly safe in the 1990s. The loss of free play and the rise of continual adult supervision deprived children of what they needed most to overcome the normal fears and anxieties of childhood: the chance to explore, test and expand their limits, build close friendships through shared adventure, and learn how to judge risks for themselves.

The second story is about the rise of the phone-based childhood, which began in the late 2000s and accelerated in the early 2010s. This was precisely the period during which adolescents traded in their flip phones for smartphones, which were loaded with social media platforms supported by the new high-speed internet and unlimited data plans.

The confluence of these two stories in the years between 2010 and 2015 is what I call the “Great Rewiring of Childhood.” Few of us understood what was happening in children’s virtual worlds and we lacked the knowledge to protect them from tech companies that had designed their products to be addictive.
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homer · Dec 8, 2023

I think I’ll believe this one since me and my wife are conservative.

G8tas · Dec 8, 2023

Why do I get the feeling that the "Institute For Family Studies" is some group that labels themselves as conservative? "Conservative group says conservative children are the most stable"

108 · Dec 8, 2023

There’s a balance to be met regardless of your political ideology..

Emmitto · Dec 8, 2023

"Cookies Best Food For Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and COOKIE TIME!!!!!, says study by Cookie Monster."

obgator · Dec 8, 2023

Does the survey say if being raised by conservative parents makes one more gullible to believing conspiracy theories like Obama being born in Kenya and migrants getting $5000 gift cards?

dave_the_thinker · Dec 8, 2023

Wait a minute, mentally healthy teens are a thing now?

swampbabe · Dec 8, 2023

mrhansduck said: ↑

I haven't studied this stuff, but this feels accruate to me.
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Very accurate from personal experience. However, this goes across the board; liberal, conservative, and everything in between.

mrhansduck · Dec 8, 2023

swampbabe said: ↑

Very accurate from personal experience. However, this goes across the board; liberal, conservative, and everything in between.
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Yep. It's not just teens either since adults are also struggling - even if to a lesser degree.

gatordavisl · Dec 8, 2023

flgator2 said: ↑

This explains why liberals are always angry
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I wonder if there are valid data on the intellectualism of conservative/liberal offspring. Interesting that this was the whole of your intellectual contribution in the op.

rivergator · Dec 8, 2023

G8tas said: ↑

Why do I get the feeling that the "Institute For Family Studies" is some group that labels themselves as conservative? "Conservative group says conservative children are the most stable"
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Overall, we rate the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) right biased based on story selection that favors conservative causes and Mixed for factual reporting based on the endorsement of poor science.

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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-for-family-studies/

gaterzfan · Dec 8, 2023

LOL .... reading Too Woke For Swamp Gas provides considerable evidence in support of the findings of that study!

homer · Dec 8, 2023

obgator said: ↑

Does the survey say anything about if being raised by conservative parents makes one more gullible to believing conspiracy theories like Obama being born in Kenya and migrants getting $5000 gift cards?
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