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What would interest me is what effect this has on parents. I would suspect that caring for a child has an equally good effect on the parents as it has on the ch
by ma2rten 13y ago
What would interest me is what effect this has on parents. I would suspect that caring for a child has an equally good effect on the parents as it has on the child.
- cafard 13y agoI don't think that the parents could tell you, and I am not sure how researchers could. To raise a child even from birth to first grade takes about six years, a period that will change anyone, parent or not. One does learn many things in caring for a child, though I can't say that is the only way to learn them.
- alanh 13y agoBecause you cannot immediately think of a study does not mean one is not possible. Consider: Measure changes in parents during child-rearing and correlate with measures of amount and style of "care" given to children. Are those that are more caring parents happier, on average, than those who are not? Control for anything you can think of controlling.