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

    • @ZagamTheVile
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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.

      • @[email protected]
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        331 year ago

        How much you wanna bet their parents say the same type of “this generation” things to them?

        • @ZagamTheVile
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          101 year ago

          Or that they get called a pussy by their dad?

    • Jaysyn
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      Triggered little bitches who can’t live in the real world.

      Says the guy crying about a scientific study online.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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      Found the absolute loser. Guaranteed to be a present or future old single white guy bitching about how the divorce court judge screwed him.

    • @_number8_
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      121 year ago

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

    • @KneeTitts
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      This is a generation of soft pussies. Triggered little bitches who can’t live in the real worl

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