Study Finds Every Style Of Parenting Produces Disturbed, Miserable Adults
October 26, 2011 | ISSUE 47•43
SANTA ROSA, CA—A study released by the California Parenting Institute Tuesday shows that every style of parenting inevitably causes children to grow into profoundly unhappy adults. “Our research suggests that while overprotective parenting ultimately produces adults unprepared to contend with life’s difficulties, highly permissive parenting leads to feelings of bitterness and isolation throughout adulthood,” lead researcher Daniel Porter said. “And, interestingly, we found that anything between those two extremes is equally damaging, always resulting in an adult who suffers from some debilitating combination of unpreparedness and isolation. Despite great variance in parenting styles across populations, the end product is always the same: a profoundly flawed and joyless human being.” The study did find, however, that adults often achieve temporary happiness when they have children of their own to perpetuate the cycle of human misery.
eugend66 says:
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28th October 2011 at 10:10 am
Golden Tool says:
Nice duck pic. Roflmao.
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28th October 2011 at 10:20 am
TeresaE says:
“The study did find, however, that adults often achieve temporary happiness when they have children of their own to perpetuate the cycle of human misery.”
Ain’t that the truth.
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28th October 2011 at 10:30 am
AWD says:
“highly permissive parenting leads to feelings of bitterness and isolation throughout adulthood”
TBP members must have all had highly permissive parents.
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28th October 2011 at 12:09 pm
AWD says:
Is this the Friday parent fail post?
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28th October 2011 at 1:23 pm
Maddie's Mom says:
I was enjoying this thread until AWD’s snake pic.
I can’t take that one.
I have to leave now.
I guess that means I’m “unprepared to contend with…” lol
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28th October 2011 at 4:37 pm
Novista says:
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“Snakes … why did it have to be snakes?” Heh.
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28th October 2011 at 6:53 pm