Parents who shout at their children or call them “stupid” are leaving their offspring at greater risk of self-harm, drug use and ending up in jail, new research claims.

Talking harshly to children should be recognised as a form of abuse because of the huge damage it does, experts say.

The authors of a new study into such behaviour say “adult-to-child perpetration of verbal abuse … is characterised by shouting, yelling, denigrating the child, and verbal threats”.

“These types of adult actions can be as damaging to a child’s development as other currently recognised and forensically established subtypes of mistreatment such as childhood physical and sexual abuse,” the academics say in their paper in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect.

  • wokehobbit@lemmy.world
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    This is a generation of soft pussies. Triggered little removed who can’t live in the real world.

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      Lol. Calm down snowflake. No reason to get offended. You have some big feelings about this but you don’t have to be a wuss about it. You can sack up and face them.

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      Whose triggered here? It seems like you’re the one getting emotional.

      If you went through the same type of shit as me growing up, get help. It’s much better not feeling angry 24/7.

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      why does the real world have to be hard? because you say so and refuse to adapt to gentler standards??

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      This is a generation of soft pussies. Triggered little removed who can’t live in the real worl

      So… like trump supporters who cant handle the fact they lost an election you mean?

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      Triggered little removed who can’t live in the real world.

      Says the guy crying about a scientific study online.