American parents more likely to find hitting children acceptable compared to hitting pets - New research highlights parents’ conflicted views on spanking.

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Sibling rivalry: parents favour older children and daughters. Authors of the study say the findings have important implications, adding that previous work has suggested differential treatment of siblings can have negative consequences for children’s development

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Parents tend to favor daughters slightly more than sons, although only parents tend to recognize the bias — children did not. Personality also plays a big role. Children who are agreeable and responsible, regardless of birth order or gender, generally receive more favorable treatment as well

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Cousin marriage: Researchers found that first cousin-parentage may have wider consequences than previously thought.

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Narcissistic traits of Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump can be traced back to common patterns in early childhood and family environments. All three leaders experienced forms of psychological trauma and frustration during formative years, and grew up with authoritarian fathers. 🧠👶🏻👨‍👦‍👦🔍

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Children whose parents divorce when they are aged five or younger are more likely to experience early death, a new study has claimed. 🧒💔📉

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Almost all unmarried pregnant women say that the fetus resembles the father 👶👨, study finds. In the absence of any valid visual cues for establishing resemblance, 93% of women who were not married said that their fetus resembled the father, compared to 68% of married women and 47% of married men.

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#PregnancyResearch #FatherFetusResemblance #UnmarriedMothers #SocialPerceptions #FamilyDynamics

The "cascading effects model" 🌊 is the idea that many symptoms of autism 🌟 flow from differences in early sensory development. The study of autism is made more complex by individual family dynamics: what might be sensory overload in one family 🏠 might be perceived as too quiet or staid in another.

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#CascadingEffectsModel #AutismAwareness #SensoryDevelopment #FamilyDynamics #Neurodiversity

This study of 58,000+ families found sex at birth is not a perfect coin toss. Some parents are more likely to have all boys 👦 or all girls 👧, possibly linked to age and maternal genes. 🧬

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#GenderStudy #FamilyDynamics #ParentingResearch #SexAtBirth #GeneticInfluence

Parents frequently try to influence who their children date. New study finds that when parents interfere with their child’s romantic relationship, the child was more likely to report a strained or chaotic relationship with that parent. 💔👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

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Emotional bias may run in families, shaped by how parents and kids talk 🗣️👨‍👩‍👧 | This intergenerational pattern may play a subtle but important role in shaping how children approach uncertainty in daily life. 🤔✨

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Families exposed to war and political violence are more likely to behave aggressively toward each other. Even years after the immediate threat has passed, its psychological and relational impacts can echo throughout families, influencing how parents relate to one another and to their children. 🕊️💔👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

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**Study Found Divergence in How Mothers and Fathers Perceived Their Relationship Over Time 🤔👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👦**

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#FamilyDynamics #ParentingPerspectives #ConflictResolution #MotherFatherDifferences #ChildDevelopment

In cultures where men are active parents or where the gap between the rich and poor is wide, women are more likely to invest in their appearance to compete for partners, suggests study of 55 countries. Women may invest more in their appearance to attract partners who can offer financial security.

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#genderroles #appearanceinvestment #economicgap #familydynamics #financialsecurity

• 🏛️ Political disagreements within families can significantly damage mental health by reducing positive communication, according to a study in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

• 🇭🇰 Research in Hong Kong, observing the "Yellow" (pro-democracy) and "Blue" (pro-government) divide, found that yellow-neutral and yellow-blue political divides lead to poorer family functioning and less positive communication.

• 🗣️ A decline in respectful and affectionate communication is the primary link between political disagreement and increased psychological distress within families, with neutrality sometimes viewed negatively by politically active members.

#FamilyDynamics #MentalHealth #Politics

Children of divorced parents are more likely to remain childless and have fewer children than children of continuously married parents.

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Parent-teen conflict can reverberate for decades and even influence how connected families feel generations later. Harsh parenting in adolescence set off a chain reaction: Strained parent-child relationships in adulthood made it harder for grandparents to build strong ties with grandchildren

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Children with a higher polygenic index for ADHD tend to see a higher likelihood of their parents separating or divorcing. The findings suggest that families are dynamic systems where a child’s inherited characteristics can actively shape the life trajectories of their parents.

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📈 Children with a higher genetic likelihood of ADHD are linked to increased parental separation or divorce, suggesting children's inherited traits can influence family dynamics.

🔬 A one standard deviation increase in a child's ADHD polygenic index predicted a 7% relative increase in the odds of parental separation or divorce.

👧 This association was stronger in families with daughters, with an 11% increase in parental dissolution odds for each standard deviation increase in the ADHD polygenic index.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 In families with above-average educational attainment, a child's ADHD genetic risk was linked to a 15% rise in partnership dissolution odds.

#ADHDResearch #FamilyDynamics #Genetics

👨‍👦 Higher conflict with fathers linked to less use of teen mental health services, study finds.

📊 Research from NTNU, based on the Trondheim Early Secure Study (TESS) of 822 adolescents (ages 12-18), highlights this connection.

🤔 The exact reasons for this link are still unclear, but potential explanations include difficulties in disclosing problems or parental perception of need.

#MentalHealth #AdolescentHealth #FamilyDynamics