Politische Meinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen Eltern und Kindern können Beziehungen und die individuelle psychische Gesundheit beeinträchtigen. Die Forschung liefert Beweise dafür, dass die Aufrechterhaltung eines offenen und respektvollen Dialogs notwendig ist, um familiäre Bindungen und das persönliche Wohlergehen zu schützen, wenn Verwandte widersprüchliche politische oder moralische Ansichten vertreten.
How parent-child political disagreements harm relationships and individual mental health
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How parent-child political disagreements harm relationships and individual mental health
A recent study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships suggests that political disagreements within families can harm relational and individual mental health by breaking down positive communication. The research provides evidence that maintaining open and respectful dialogue is necessary to protect family bonds and personal well-being when relatives hold conflicting political or moral views.
For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02654075261418067
I don’t see how anyone needs to coexist with individuals who think you should not have similar rights? You don’t think my kids have control over their bodies?
I dont care how bad it affects my mental health, im not going to „maintain an open and respectful dialogue“ with my racist and sexist family who think that only they should have rights because god told them so.
Left leaning people generally overwhelming can’t tolerate others holding conflicting beliefs.
They do not understand or respect the idea one can hold an opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs, and you can still have a relationship with that person.
They don’t know how to coexist with others.
Too fragile.
There is a difference between „disagreements“ and hard polarized do-or-die emotional last stands.
I’ve always talked politics with my kids, but we just sit and talk about issues, without all the stupid dog whistle emotional stuff, and it’s never gone off the rails, even during the edgiest of the teen years. You can have rational, compassionate discourse about damn near any topic, but the key is being *rational* and not trying to shove some dogmatic, poorly reasoned position down your kid’s throat.
I would question if it’s more about politics, or more about these parents expecting their kids to just think what they tell them to think, and politics is just the most obvious point of friction today.
Has this been contrasted to the damage to mental health as a result of not valuing the relationship with oneself and thereby not cutting ties with those stuck in their ways?
One cannot reason another party out of something one has not been reasoned into.
This is going to go down well on radicalised, „just cut them off“ Reddit…
Thankfully my parents don’t have the politics of protecting pedophiles.
I know reddit tends to lift up extremest point of views like any social media platform but I really do believe that 90% of people are more independent than we give credit for.
Just an anecdote but my Father, who my siblings and I believed was a forever Trumper, actually has much more nuanced beliefs than we all assumed which he revealed over the holidays. But since we rarely speak at length in a civil setting, the vast majority of our communication is sadly through facebook posts and text messages, so you forget there’s a human being with layers of ideas behind the smartphone.
you know what’s even more harmful to mental health?? having to constantly deal with a family member who has racist/sexist/homophobic/otherwise bigoted believes and opinions. That’s more helpful. How can you have an „open and respectful dialogue“ with someone who doesn’t respect your basic human rights??
Thankfully this isn’t the case with my parents, because their politics is also one of treating people with decency and not being a prejudice jackass, but for those with parents/family members who do have bigoted views, it’s often better to just disengage from that person.