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Politics and parenting: Children of liberal parents more likely to be depressed
Washington Examiner ^ | April 6, 2023 | Breccan F. Thies

Posted on 04/09/2023 8:52:51 AM PDT by Twotone

Children of politically liberal parents are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety , lack a sense of life meaning, and have substance abuse issues, according to a family physician with more than 30 years of experience.

Dr. Leonard Sax, who also holds a Ph.D. in psychology, told the Washington Examiner that left-of-center parents are much more likely to be "aggressively permissive" in their parenting style, leaving children without proper authority.

These "permissive parents," whose parenting style is also known as "gentle parenting," do not want to be seen as "controlling" or "coercive" to their children.

For example, "gentle parents," which proponents describe as "patient, calm, and punishment-free," do not train their children to use the toilet, but rather "model" using the toilet in hopes of inspiring the child to use the toilet and grow out of their diaper.

In a piece for the Institute for Family Studies, Sax wrote of an experience he had with a six-year-old patient and her mother, where the little girl refused to open her mouth for Sax to inspect her sore throat. When he asked the mother to step in to get her daughter to comply, she replied with the pro-abortion slogan, "Her body, her choice."

"I think it's because of the discomfort with authority," the doctor said of liberal parents. "Authority seems suspect and almost immoral."

These parents will take the view that "I cannot compel my child to take on any obligation that they have not freely chosen."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arth; depression; liberalparents
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1 posted on 04/09/2023 8:52:51 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Liberalism is a mental illness


2 posted on 04/09/2023 8:54:49 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Twotone

Duh. Tell a kid the world is messed up and will end soon, what do you expect?


3 posted on 04/09/2023 8:55:32 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Twotone

Raise up a child in the way that they should go…


4 posted on 04/09/2023 8:56:31 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: Twotone

“Depressed” also likely means “Drugged” with anti-depressants.


5 posted on 04/09/2023 8:57:38 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Twotone

“Depressed” also likely means “Drugged” with anti-depressants.


6 posted on 04/09/2023 8:57:38 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Raise up a child in the way that they should go…

Mold a child when he is young, and he'll be sure to mold when he is old.

(Proverbs 32:1)

7 posted on 04/09/2023 9:03:08 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Twotone

This is what years of progressivism has done to this generation. Participation trophies for everyone!


8 posted on 04/09/2023 9:03:55 AM PDT by Dominic01 (Political correctness has become a psychosis)
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To: Twotone

If this doc was a lefty..they’d call him an expert.


9 posted on 04/09/2023 9:09:04 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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Toddlers think they can get what they want by screaming and pouting.

When parents don’t correct this behavior, it persists beyond the formative years.

As they continue to scream and pout into adulthood, they become increasingly depressed as it doesn’t get them what they want.

They also subconsciously begin to realize what they think they want isn’t what they really want, and it certainly isn’t what they need.


10 posted on 04/09/2023 9:10:09 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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That’s because they live with liberal mentally ill parents, or simply a single mother who has serious mental issues.

Take for instance the son of that Florida crazy, Rebekah Jones, whose son was just arrested for threatening a school shooting. No wonder the child is on psych meds and under mental health care! Look at his mother!


11 posted on 04/09/2023 9:18:52 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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Of course, they have covid-anxiety, climate-anxiety, gun-anxiety, Trump-anxiety, they live in constant fear, it’s not normal or healthy.


12 posted on 04/09/2023 9:40:08 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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13 posted on 04/09/2023 9:48:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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Because liberal parents want to cut their son’s pecker off!


14 posted on 04/09/2023 9:48:44 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Twotone

Children crave rules, order, stability and above all, certainty - certainty for everything from what time dinner is every day, to the purpose and meaning of life.

Every adult leftist I know has none of these things.


15 posted on 04/09/2023 9:50:18 AM PDT by PGR88
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Children of politically liberal parents are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety , lack a sense of life meaning, and have substance abuse issues, according to a family physician with more than 30 years of experience.

Probably because they morn all their dead brothers and sisters and know they only survived by pure chance.

16 posted on 04/09/2023 9:50:24 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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Yep.

They are small, soft and fragile and they know it.

17 posted on 04/09/2023 9:53:36 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: Twotone

I think it’s the new Munchausen’s disease that is so “wild popular” in the far-left, screwball dung beetle community these days. Sperm and egg donors put a lot of pressure on their offspring to be friggin’ “different”. If you are a male, identify as a female. Females identify as males and choose boxing and fighting as your favorite pastime. Women with broken noses, fat lips and cauliflower ears make just lovely brides. Wearing a Dodgers hat with red dirt around the headband from second base on your head backwards with your wedding gown is “adorable” and makes dad proud.


18 posted on 04/09/2023 9:55:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to indict the Dung Beetle Party's token affirmative action chubby cheeked shyster lawyer.)
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I was in the San Francisco waiting for a plane. There was a mother with a small child who had been seated in an exit row. There were no other adjacent seats so the gate/ticket taker was trying to figure out how well the child responded to commands. He asked, “how does she respond when you tell her no.” The mother frowned and said, “What? I never tell her no.”


19 posted on 04/09/2023 10:04:40 AM PDT by ladyjane
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Well, of course. Those children were triple-masked, even at home. They were not touched by fathers, especially the young girls, as that would be seen as “assault” or “rape”. Their schools can’t even tell them what a woman is because of transanity. They lack support from their schools and communities. It’s no wonder the kids are basket cases.


20 posted on 04/09/2023 10:35:45 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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