Just because you believe in a mythical creature does not mean you should be allowed to do permanent
psychological damage to your children.
People who are uncomfortable with the idea of co-sleeping often suggest that co-sleeping is «less healthy» than the child sleeping alone and will cause
psychological damage to the child, cause baby to become too dependent on the parents, etc..
This can do serious
psychological damage to a child and cause them to experience mental issues for a long time going forward unless you are able to act quickly to restore your relationship.
Extreme, obsessive, and ongoing parental alienation can cause terrible
psychological damage to children extending well into adulthood.
January is International Child Centered Divorce Month — a whole month dedicated to alerting parents about the effects of divorce on children and teaching them how to prevent emotional and
psychological damage to children during and after a divorce.
Relatively minor conflicts cause relatively minor effects; physical violence causes more emotional and
psychological damage to the children.
And the longer the parental conflict continues, the more serious is
the psychological damage to the child.
The psychological damage to children and the target parent is unlikely to ever be reversed.
Not exact matches
Or the thousands of folks who struggle
to support themselves because of the
psychological damages caused by
child molesters within the church?
Some mothers worry that breastfeeding an older
child could cause
psychological damage, but there is no reason
to believe that breastfeeding an older
child causes any problems at all.
It could also help
to send your
child or
children to a
child psychologist
to check on any
psychological or emotional
damage they might have received from witnessing (or even just sensing) your marital problems, which might cause them
to have low self - esteem.
But according
to the American
Psychological Association, ripped clothing, items disappearing, or
damaged belongings could actually be signs of bullying that your
child is too nervous
to talk about.
Breastfeeding a toddler or small
child will lead
to psychological damage and clinginess - This is complete crap and is rooted in our discomfort with 1.
If it were at all practical she would spend her entire life in a sleeper put on backwards, but 1) that would make diaper changes impossibly time consuming and 2) I'm trying, even if ineffectually,
to minimize the
psychological damage on my poor
child.
The fear and
psychological damage that bullying can cause
to a
child has in the past been treated with relative disregard.
«Exposure
to psychological domestic abuse most
damaging to children's wellbeing: New research shows that exposure
to psychological abuse between parents is more
damaging to children's wellbeing in the long term than physical domestic violence.»
By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate
to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their
children's health, the
psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.
If your
child suffers from persistent
psychological or emotional trauma that is caused by another person's deliberate act or negligence, you may be entitled
to recover
damages from the party responsible for your
child's injury under certain circumstances.
Most states follow the law of the Restatement (Second) of Torts with respect
to actions brought
to recover
damages for a
child's
psychological injuries.
Severe disfigurement, particularly in
children, can lead
to lasting emotional and
psychological damage.
These are only few examples that, if exercised by one or both parents, are very
damaging to your
children's
psychological development, no matter how old they are.
At the symbolic level, fostering is considered
to be a sort of «second
psychological birth», in that the foster family makes itself and its resources available
to heal the
child's primary affective
damage, thereby giving rise
to a «bond
to heal the bond» (Greco & Iafrate, 2001),
to the «renewal» of devastated experience and an improved self - esteem (Nunziante Cesaro & Ferraro, 1992; Saviane Kaneklin, 1995).
Ideally, the pediatrician who evaluates a
child for
psychological maltreatment will be able
to demonstrate or opine that
psychological acts or omissions of the caregiver have resulted (or may result) in significant
damage to the
child's mental or physical health.
For good reason: reams of
psychological research into the
children of splitting - up couples has shown unequivocally that parental conflict is
damaging to the kids.
It should be noted in any discussion of
psychological problems however, that refugee and asylum seeking
children and adolescents are more likely
to have serious health problems associated with malnutrition, disease, physical injuries, brain
damage and sexual or physical abuse (Westermeyer, 1991).
Guilt in the wife may derive from her worry about breaking up the family, about leaving her husband in misery and depression, about his ability
to survive emotionally without her, about
damaging the
children's
psychological well - being, and so forth.
While she did find that 25 % of
children from divorce do have serious social, emotional, or
psychological problems (in contrast
to only 10 % of
children from intact families), the great majority (75 %
to 80 %) of
children of divorce shows very little long - term
damage and, as adults, is functioning well.
Even if you do not have
children, do not underestimate the potential degree of
psychological damage that can be done
to yourself, let alone physical injury.
«Testimony by an expert knowledgeable about the strategies that parents use
to promulgate and support alienation, the extent
to which
children can be manipulated
to reject and denigrate a parent, the extent
to which
children are suggestible, the mechanics of stereotype induction, and the
psychological damage associated with involving
children in parental hostilities, may assist the court in determining the proper amount of weight
to give a
child's explicitly stated preferences and statements regarding each parent.
The trial court's finding that the mother's abusive use of conflict created a potential danger of serious
damage to the
child's
psychological development was supported by substantial evidence.»
It can also
damage your
children's
psychological growth if you and your spouse don't consider their well - being and act in a way that will lead
to a respectful co-parenting relationship post-divorce.
Our forensic consultations generally involve matters of family law, juvenile law (delinquency or neglect), criminal law (
psychological defenses and malingering), employment law and other legal matters that may involve emotional distress or
psychological damages to the client or their
children or spouses.
Psychological interventions for
children of divorce exposed
to dysfunctional parenting could also be carried out
to increase coping strategies and resilience in order
to protect them from the long - term
damage to their sense of self.