Researchers from the University of Rochester have concluded that long term stress caused by factors, such as poverty and depression, disrupt the body’s natural stress response making it difficult to effectively parent children. Mothers are more likely to exhibit negative parenting behaviors such as neglect, insensitivity and hostility toward their children. These are all signs of stress and improperly taking care of this stress makes it much harder for positive parenting. Even though there has been a lot of research on stress, this study showed how ongoing psychological and economic stress plays and important role in the way these people feel and act.
Mothers who are faced with these concerns and threats become overwhelmed and cannot emotionally take care of the children when they need attention. Understandably, people in these socio-economic conditions then find it even harder to remove themselves from the conditions around them that are causing the stress.
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