Bad Parents Research Articles

Comparing the Effectiveness of Treatment Based on Acceptance and Commitment and Therapy Focused on Compassion on Cognitive Distortions of Adolescents with bad Parents

Background: The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion-focused therapy (CFT) on cognitive distortions in adolescents living in difficult family situations. Methods: The current study utilized a semi-experimental design with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up, involving random assignment of subjects to experimental and control groups. Forty-five abused teenage girls from abusive homes in Mahabad city were selected. They were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (15 people each) and a control group (15 people). All subjects completed the Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire developed by Beck and Weissman (1987). The experimental groups received therapy sessions based on ACT by Efort and Forsis (2009) and CFT by Gilbert (2009), while the control group did not receive any intervention. The collected data were analyzed using mixed-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with SPSS version 27. Results: The results indicated no significant difference between the effectiveness of ACT and CFT. Both therapies were found to have a positive and significant impact on reducing cognitive distortions in the participants. Conclusions: The findings suggest that both ACT and CFT are effective therapeutic approaches in reducing cognitive distortions in adolescents from difficult family backgrounds.

FACTORS ASSOCIATED POST-PARTUM CONTRACEPTION PLANNING

The problem of stunting that occurs in Indonesia is caused by one of the sensitive factors, namely bad parenting. Improper parenting can occur in mothers whose children are born too close together (<2 years). Postpartum contraception can also be a solution for those who are "4 too” The achievement of postpartum family planning services in Sarirejo District (65.12%) has not met the target (70%). This study aims to analyze the effect of age, number of children, level of education and knowledge of postpartum family planning plans for pregnant women in Sarirejo District. This type of analytic observational research with cross sectional design. The research subjects were all pregnant women in Sarirejo District in April 2023 with a total sample of 77 respondents. The results showed that the variables Age (p=0.001), Number of Children (p=0.001) and Knowledge (p=0.001) were related to postpartum contraceptive plans. Meanwhile, education level only at senior high school level (p=0.001) has an influence on postnatal contraceptive use plans. The conclusion is that postpartum contraceptive use increases with increasing maternal age, increases with increasing number of children, increases with maternal education and increasing knowledge. There is a need to increase understanding and knowledge of pregnant women about the importance of postnatal family planning through counseling and collaboration with village midwives.

Penerapan Pola Pengasuhan Permisif terhadap Perilaku Agresivitas Siswa di SD Negeri 1 Kapongan

Permissive parenting has a bad influence on a child's character or behavior. The impact of permissive parenting on children includes behavior that contains elements of aggressiveness in the form of verbal or non-verbal. Factors that cause aggressive behavior include bad parenting patterns given by parents. The goal to be achieved in this research is the influence of permissive parenting on aggressive behavior. The sample in the research was 125 students from SD Negeri 1 Kapongan, Situbondo Regency. Data was collected through a scale of permissive parenting patterns modified from (Arifin, 2019) and aggressive behavior modified from (Helmi, 2018). Next, analysis was carried out using statistical regression analysis. Based on the research results, a significant value = 0.000 < 0.05 was produced with the regression coefficient value being positive, therefore the conclusion was drawn that there was a positive influence between permissive parenting patterns on aggressive behavior at SD Negeri 1 Kapongan, Situbondo Regency or it could be interpreted as high levels of permissiveness applied by people. When older, a child's aggressive behavior increases. Likewise, the opposite is true if parents are not permissive in implementing their parenting style, making their children less aggressive in their behavior.

Elimination disorders and associated factors among children and adolescents age 5–14 year-old attending paediatric outpatient clinic at Wolaita Sodo University comprehensive specialized hospital, South Ethiopia

BackgroundElimination disorder occurs in children over the age of normal toileting who continue to have an inability to control urination or feces, either during the day, at night, or both. Paediatric elimination disorders are not well understood by parents, teachers, medical professionals, mental health practitioners, and researchers. Hence, this study aimed to assess the magnitude of elimination disorder and associated factors among children and Adolescents aged 5–14 years old at Wolaita Sodo University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, South Ethiopia, in 2022.MethodA hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted from September 22 to November 22, 2022, at Wolaita Sodo University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital. A systematic random sampling technique was employed to select 423 study subjects. The data were gathered using a structured, face-to-face interviewer-administered questionnaire. The development of the symptom score for dysfunctional elimination syndrome of Vancouver questionnaires was used to screen for elimination disorders. Logistic regression model was used to determine the association between the outcome and independent variables. A 95% CI and Odds ratio with corresponding p-value < 0.05 were used to determine the predictors of the outcome variable.ResultThe overall magnitude of elimination disorder among children and Adolescents age 5–14 in this study was (n 70, 16.8%); in boys (n 47, 17.3%) and girls (n 23, 15.75%). The prevalence of enuresis was (n 64, 15.3%), encopresis (n 15, 3.6%), both enuresis and encopresis, or combined elimination disorder (n 9, 2.2%). Age 9–11 years (AOR = 3.2, 95%CI:1.09, 9.43), family size four and above (AOR = 3.4, 95%CI:1.78, 6.56), family history of elimination disorder (AOR = 3.9, 95%CI:2.12, 7.45), emotional problem (AOR = 2.2, 95%CI:1.18, 4.05), hyperactive problem (AOR = 3.8, 95%CI:1.83, 7.83), low toilet training skills (AOR = 5.9, 95%CI:2.61, 13.33), bad parenting practices, were poor supervision (AOR = 4.4, 95%CI 1.29, 14.69) were significantly associated with elimination disorder.Conclusion and recommendationIn this study, approximately one in five children and adolescents had an elimination disorder. Younger age, family size four and above, positive family history of elimination disorder, presence of emotional and hyperactive problems, bad parenting practices, and low toilet training skills were factors associated with elimination disorders. Therefore, preventative, etiological, and therapeutic measure, early toilet training, supportive parenting practices, screening for children’s and adolescents’ behavioral problems, and elimination disorders need attention to reduce the effect of the problem.

Utilization of Health Services by Stunting Families in Tasikmalaya

Stunting is a national issue that attracts a lot of attention. Several factors are the cause of stunting in Indonesia, namely: bad parenting, including deficit knowledge about health and nutrition before and during pregnancy and after the mother gives birth; limited health services, including ANC-Ante Natal Care services (health services for mothers during pregnancy); Post Natal Care and quality early learning: deficit nutrition; and difficulty accessing clean water and sanitation.Aim: The research aims to describe the utilization of health services by families with stunting and the factors that influence it. Methods:This research design is quantitative with descriptive methods. The population was families with stunting in the Sukamulya Village area, namely 18 people. The sampling technique is total sampling. Data collection is done directly using the univariate data analysis technique. Results:The results showed that 44.4% of families with stunting did not use health services for treatment, and 22.2% of families with stunted toddlers rarely used posyandu services. Predisposing characteristic factors that influence visits to health services in this study are age &gt; 35 years and junior high school graduates. Conclusion:In this study, the characteristic factor that influences the ability to visit health services is that the majority of family income is &lt;UMR (unit market reference), and 38.9% do not have health insurance. The factor that influenced visits to health services in this study showed that 61.2% of families with stunting had a negative perception of stunting, such as the perception that stunting was not a serious problem that did not require immediate action.

Pola Asuh Makan, Pengetahuan Ibu dan Status Ekonomi Orang Tua pada Balita dengan Status Gizi Bermasalah di Pusat dan Pinggir Kota

The toddler years are the most important period, where children need adequate nutrition to support their physical growth. This study aims to determine the description of parenting patterns, mothers’ knowledge level, and parents' economic status for toddlers with problem nutritional status in the city center and outskirts of the city in the work area of ​​the Gambok Health Center, Sijunjung Regency in 2022. This research is a descriptive study with a cross-sectional study design. The population in this study was toddlers with problematic nutritional status (undernutrition and overnutrition) totaling 60 people. Collecting data using a questionnaire and direct measurement of the height and weight of children under five. The research results were analyzed univariately and displayed in the form of a frequency distribution table. The results of this study indicate that more than half of the bad parenting patterns (75%) in toddlers are found in the outskirts of the city, while in the city center, the parenting patterns are good (100%). More than half of the mothers (82.5%) have a good level of knowledge living in the city center, while more than half of the mothers (60%) have a low level of knowledge living in the Outskirts of the City. The economic status of parents in the City Center (95%) and Outskirts of the City (50%) already have sufficient economic status. Based on this, it can be concluded that parenting patterns, mothers’ level of knowledge, and parents' economic status are some of the factors that cause toddlers to have problematic nutritional status. This research can be developed by adding other factors that can affect the nutritional status of toddlers.

A study of the relationship between parents’ educational behavior and children’s psychological development based on linear regression models

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linear relationship between parenting and children’s psychological development and to analyze the strength of the relationship between them by using linear regression models. A one-dimensional nonparametric regression model with matrices is employed to handle the linear relationship between parenting and children’s psychological development. Combining parameter estimation and great-likelihood estimation was used to determine the maximum parameter value for the sample relationship. To ensure that the parameters that affect parenting and children’s mental health development conform to the model, we used the expectation and variance of the parameter estimates. The results show that good and bad parenting behavior affects children’s mental health. Benign parenting has a contributing effect on children’s emotional influence; children’s perception of safety is 0.75, and more stable emotions and stability are 0.85. When children are well educated, children’s three perceptions are 0.65, and self-perception is 0.8.

Secondary syphilis in a 13-year-old Indonesian girl: a social problem

Introduction: Secondary syphilis is characterized by skin and mucous eruptions, such as condyloma lata. Syphilis cases are rare in children. Several factors could influence sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in children, such as lack of knowledge of STIs, parenting, social environment, parents’ marital status, occupation, and education. We reported one social case of secondary syphilis in a 13-year-old girl. Case Presentation: We did history taking, physical, and laboratory examinations. From history taking, the patient did not know about the signs and symptoms of STIs, has bad parenting, a bad social environment, divorced parents, and parents’ low education. On physical examination, there were skin-colored papules, plaques, and nodules on the labia majora, minora, and perianal. The venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) result was reactive. The patient was treated with single dose injection of 2.4 million international units benzathine penicillin G and was educated for signs, symptoms, and complications of STIs, and the danger of risky sexual behavior. There were improvement of the lesions 10 days after therapy, decreased of VDRL titer 4x in one month after therapy, and no longer have sexual activity. Conclusion: Social condition can cause STIs in children. The bigger scope of education programs for children is needed to prevent STIs.

The “Bad Parents”: Gender-Policing of Trans, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary People in U.S. Families

The “Bad Parents”: Gender-Policing of Trans, Gender Nonconforming, and Nonbinary People in U.S. Families

The Relationship Between Parenting and Feeding Patterns On The Incidence Of Stunting

Stunting is a significant highlight in Indonesia because it is continually rising. Factor pattern of bad parenting and inappropriate infant feeding is a risk cause of stunting. The purpose of this research is to analyze the connection pattern parenting and patterns of provision of food to the incidence of stunting in infants. This research is a quantitative study with a cross-sectional design. This research was conducted in the Health Center Cipadung working area in January- March 2022. The research population is mothers with toddlers. A sample of 84 respondents was taken randomly. The instruments used are a measuring tool height and a questionnaire. Data analysis used the chi-square test. The research showed that pattern parenting (p=0.045 and POR=2.9) and pattern feeding (p=0.014 and POR=3.3) are associated with stunting. Parenting and patterns of feeding are related to the incidence of stunting. Good maternal parenting can prevent children from experiencing stunting and feeding; if mothers provide the right food for their children, then children can be spared from stunting.

Bad parents? evaluating judgements of infant homicides

While the killing of one’s own infant is an undoubtedly harrowing crime, there exists little research exploring attitudes toward these individuals. Such work has focused primarily on depictions of mothers, yet U.K. government data indicate that the majority of infant homicide cases involve paternal suspects. A sample of U.K. residents (n = 245) participated in a mixed-methods design to explore attitudes toward mothers and fathers who have been accused of murdering their infant child and whether parental mental health issues impacted these judgements. Results aligned with the chivalry hypothesis wherein maternal suspects were evaluated more leniently. Qualitative analyses uncovered hidden gender expectations: mothers were ascribed blame when the father was accused of infant homicide, a finding that was not present in the reverse scenario. This suggests that traditional views of motherhood conflict with a shifting social landscape that is seeing an increase in stay-at-home fathers and working mothers.

Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development

Alcoholism is endemic in Nigeria’s traditional religion and society. This abuse is especially common at New Yam festivals, Ekpe, Ekpo and Nmanwu masquerades festivals, burial rituals, birth, marriage and naming ceremonies. Some claim that this is driven by specific beliefs and activities in African culture, such as beliefs in ancestors, libation, hospitality and entertaining guests and strangers and the desire to maintain the cultural traditions of the ancestors. Alcohol abuse has generated major health and social issues for abusers, their families and society, plunging families, towns and tribes into crises and conflicts that bring economic and political retrogression. This research studied how the African traditional religion encourages alcohol misuse and how to decrease it for national development. This study was on Nigeria’s South-South region. The study uses qualitative and ethnographic research methodologies, including key informants, in-depth and focus group interviews and the reward deficiency syndrome as a theoretical framework. Although African Traditional Religion (ATR) supports alcohol usage, greed, a lack of self-control, peer pressure, indiscipline and lack of moral upbringing led to alcohol misuse, which harms the person, family, community and country as a whole. Education and enlightenment are a remedy to free alcoholics and utilise them for national integration and development.Contribution: Some say Africans drink a lot because their religious heritage promotes drinking, leading to abuse. However, peer pressure, selfishness, a lack of self-control, bad parenting and not religion push persons with reward deficiency syndrome into alcoholism, according to this research.

The good, the bad, and the blameless in parenting: a thematic analysis of discussions of childhood obesity on an internet forum

BackgroundChildhood obesity is affecting an increasing percentage of families globally. For families, obesity is often a tense issue, not least because of the negative stigma and cultural perceptions associated with it. Discussions around childhood obesity do not take place only at home or in healthcare, but increasingly on social media, such as Internet discussion forums. Our aim was to analyse how childhood obesity is discussed on a Finnish online discussion forum by parents of children with obesity and other commenters.MethodWe gathered and analysed 16 discussion threads on childhood obesity taken from a Finnish Internet discussion forum, vauva.fi, between 2015 and 2021 (a total of 331 posts). For the analysis, we chose threads where the parents of a child with obesity took part. The parents’ and other commenters’ discussions were analysed and interpreted with inductive thematic analysis.ResultsIn the online discussions, childhood obesity was discussed mostly in the context of parenting, parental responsibility and lifestyle choices within the family. We identified three themes that were used to define parenting. In the theme of proving good parenting, parents and commenters listed healthy elements in their family’s lifestyle to show their responsibility and parenting skills. In the theme of blaming bad parents, other commenters pointed out mistakes in the parents’ behaviour or offered them advice. Moreover, many acknowledged that some factors causing childhood obesity were outside the parents’ influence, forming the theme of lifting the blame from parents. In addition, many parents brought up that they were genuinely ignorant of the reasons for their child’s overweight.ConclusionsThese results are in line with previous studies suggesting that in Western cultures obesity – including childhood obesity – is typically seen as the individual’s fault and is associated with negative stigma. Consequently, counselling parents in healthcare should be expanded from supporting a healthy lifestyle to strengthening parents’ identity as being good enough parents who are already making many health enhancing efforts. Situating the family in a wider context of the obesogenic environment could ease the parents’ feelings that they have failed at parenting.

Building good knowledge or blaming bad parents? Examining the construction of parents and parenting in a corpus of parent focussed cochlear implant research articles

AbstractParents of deaf children with a cochlear implant (CI) report feeling pressure to adhere to a very prescribed conceptualisation of ‘good parenting’, and in some cases report feeling judged or blamed, for example, if the child's progress post‐CI is slower than expected. Previous investigations of the discourses of parenting science suggest that, while parent blame is rarely expressed explicitly, that normative, moral assumptions about how ‘good parents of a disabled child’ should feel, think and act are embedded within prevalent concepts and terminology. A disproportionate focus on evaluating individual parents' personal characteristics at the expense of more external, socially located issues has also been noted. Existing critiques, together with the author's lived experience provide the impetus for this study; in which corpus linguistics methods have been used to document the types of parents and parenting attributes constructed in a 420,982 corpus of research articles. The results indicate the prevalence of many highly evaluative parenting noun‐collocates within the field; successful adaptation, a positive appraisal of the situation, realistic expectations, rational decisions, high involvement and full‐time use of the CI are conflated with good parenting, whilst parents who present in alternate ways are construed as problematic. Implications for future research are discussed.

Parenting, Environment, and Its Role in Adolescent Transition into Adulthood

Adolescence is the most important stage in every man’s life because it is the bridge that clearly defines the childhood dream and the imagination to actual reality in adulthood. It is a period of storm and stress that comes with multiple complexities, as a result of trauma from, biological, environmental, and social factors. It is not an easy time for adolescents and parents. There are lots of parents- adolescent conflicts that create insecure and unstable feelings which could lead to impulsive and harmful behavior due to both bad parenting and parental dysfunctions. Dealing with these conflicts positively will help the adolescent transform into a more responsible adult which brings about a more responsible society. We discussed the outcome of improper transition due to poor parenting and environmental factors with its complexities and limitation in research on parenting and environment. The importance and problem of home management and environmental influence, understanding the adolescent’s needs, wants, cravings, and the effect of hormones on them. We also provide a contextual explanation of the balance of their role as caregivers and their style of parenting and the negative consequences when relegated and the danger it poses to the adolescent. Also identifying the key factor in parenting by describing the task of a parent and how the society at large influences the process of parenting. We also describe how parental style and environment and resources can affect the adolescent complete transition to adulthood which influence the overall outcome of the individual in terms of understanding, perception, and behavior; suggesting a possible way to abate the crisis by educating parents on when to be what the child needs.

“Sober Message to Parents”: Representations of Parents in Australian News Media on Youth Drinking

Traditional news media can both reflect and shape public perceptions, including expectations relating to alcohol and parenting. This paper examines representations of parents in Australian news media reporting on youth drinking to understand how parental standards related to alcohol are constructed and articulated. 150 news articles were sampled from a larger study of youth drinking, in which we identified four representations of parents—parents as to blame, good parents, parents as lost and parents as victims. These four representations of parents reflect dominant neoliberal ways of governing, which promote parental education, best practice standards and responsibility as solutions to concerns around youth drinking. We examine the way politicians, research findings and legal directives (most commonly secondary supply laws) were deployed to attribute parental responsibility and standards of care. While parents as “to blame” or as irresponsible was concretely established in the articles, good parents were far more elusive and strategically individualized in ways that abdicated responsibility from the state, industry and structural burdens. As such, while media representations were able to define and moralize bad parents and parenting practices when it came to youth drinking, what it meant to be a “good parent” was often an ambiguous ideal. We suggest these media representations contribute to intensive parenting standards by providing another platform in which parental behaviors can be publicly scrutinized and moralized.

Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized

Courts in seven U.S. states have removed children with “obesity” from parental custody until children could maintain “healthy weights.” These rulings—alongside qualitative reports from parents of children with high weight (PoCHs)—suggest that PoCHs are judged as bad parents. Yet little work has tested whether people genuinely stigmatize PoCHs or what drives this phenomenon. In three experiments with U.S. online community participants (N = 1,011; two preregistered), we tested an attribution theory model: Social perceivers attribute children’s weights to parents and thus stigmatize those parents. Experiments 1 and 2 support this model (across parent and child gender). Experiment 3 manipulated attributions of parental responsibility for child weight, revealing attenuated stigma with low attributions of responsibility. Findings are among the first to describe and explain stigma toward a large demographic (parents of children with obesity)—with real-world implications (e.g., for family separation, health care)—and may additionally illuminate the psychology underlying stigma toward parents of children with other potentially stigma-evoking identities.

Secrecy, self-blame and risks for social exclusion-Family members' experiences of gambling problems in Japan.

The predominant gambling policy to respond to the adverse consequences of excessive gambling has been the Reno Model, which places the responsibility for gambling-caused problems on gamblers themselves. The newly implemented Japanese gambling policy, which shares basic premises with the Reno Model, focuses on the individual pathology of gamblers. However, this model lacks other critical perspectives: environmental and structural factors. To fully understand the harms caused by gambling; it is important to also pay attention to the negative consequences for affected others. In this brief report, we explore family members’ experiences of gambling problems within the specific context of the Japanese gambling policy. Interviews with family members reveal self-stigma of being bad parents which elicits shame and efforts to maintain secrecy, as well as public stigma involving labeling, isolation, risks of status loss, social exclusion and discrimination. The focus on individual pathology in Japanese legislation as well as in public and professional perception, reinforces self-blame, anxiety, and remorse on the part of affected family members. When contrasted with the lived experiences of gamblers’ family members, the inconsistencies and unreasonableness of the individual pathology paradigm in Japanese gambling policy become evident. It is necessary to shift the focus of gambling policies from individual to socio-political-cultural factors, investigating how these factors influence gambling-caused harm, especially in the Japanese context.

Trauma, queer sexuality and symbolic storytelling in Joachim Trier’s Thelma

This article analyses Joachim Trier’s Thelma () through the concept of trauma, brought on by the title character’s perception of her sexuality as ‘deviant’ and reinforced by her rigidly religious parents’ efforts to tame it by force. Their symbolic enactment of bad parenting manifests itself in a form of Foucauldian biopower on the father’s part and as a Kristevan monstrous-feminine attitude on the mother’s. To heal from trauma, Thelma must free herself from parental control. By focalizing the narrative through Thelma’s mental subjectivity and with religious and supernatural imagery, the film expresses this process symbolically rather than figuratively.

Pendampingan Pola Asuh Orang Tua pada Ibu-Ibu di Kelurahan Serengan Surakarta

Parenting is one of the spearheads of parents efforts in educating children. Children who are educated with the right parenting style will become good children. Otherwise, children who are educated with bad parenting will make children who are not good. This parenting style assistance is carried out using counseling methods and approaches through several stages, including, 1) planning activity programs; 2) implementation of the activity plan; 3) implementation of evaluation and reporting of activities. This assistance is an effort to increase the insight of parents, especially mothers about parenting, and increase the ability of parents to make decisions in implementing the type of parenting that will be applied to their children.