There Are Benefits to Positive and Costs to Negative Parenting

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There Are Benefits to Positive and Costs to Negative Parenting

There are significant long-term costs to society in general, and to individuals and families in particular when there has been poor parenting.  Today, public schools are expected to make up for poor parenting and lack of parental involvement. This accounts for much of the problems these schools face.  Education Reform cannot be fully realized unless, as a society, we address the issues associated with poor parenting and the concomitant problems.  The article linked below - The Benefits of Positive Parenting – provides valuable information worth reading, discussing and reflecting upon.

The Benefits of Positive Parenting
The New York Times, David Bornstein, 02/20/2013
“Opinionator” columnist David Bornstein asks: “Is there a science to parenting?” For all the current discussion in the United States about gun violence and mental illness, there has been little attention paid to root causes. Any effort aiming to reduce gun violence — or child abuse, intimate partner violence, suicide or sexual abuse — must include a serious discussion about how society can improve the quality of parenting. Bornstein’s article highlights a parenting system called the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program.

 A review of two decades worth of studies has shown that corporal punishment is associated with antisocial behavior and aggression in children, and later in life is linked to depression, unhappiness, anxiety, drug and alcohol use and psychological maladjustment. Beyond beating, parents can also hurt children by humiliating them, labeling them in harmful ways (“Why are you so stupid?”), or continually criticizing their behavior.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/helping-the-parents...