Sentences with phrase «insecure children tend»

Overall, insecure children tend to have low self - esteem.

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Children raised by permissive parents tend to lack self - discipline, possess poor social skills, may be self - involved and demanding, and may feel insecure due to the lack of boundaries and guidance.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

Several empirical studies and a meta - analysis8 have found that insecure parents usually have insecurely attached infants and secure parents tend to have secure children.

Insecure attachment (avoidant or withdrawn), elicited by perceived inconsistent care, tends to trigger children's reliance on «primitive structures» such as kicking and screaming, rather than using social skills (Green & Gibbs, 2010, p. 228).

Children who have not developed a healthy, secure attachment with parents tend to grow up feeling more anxious and insecure, disconnected, and angry.

Given that insecure attachments tend to form when children have not had the help necessary to process feelings around relational ruptures and disappointments, the «earned secure» attachment necessary for parenting authoritatively is best achieved through processing these unresolved emotions, or facing and expelling the «ghosts» of the parental past (Fraiberg, Adelson, & Shapiro).

Mothers of insecure children were more downcast, tended to show less tenderness / affection, were more likely to express extreme levels of anger / irritability, and were more likely to express high levels of two or more negative affects (i.e., anger, anxiousness, downcast) than were mothers of secure children.