Babies can be exhausting enough during the day, but when they cry throughout the night the so-called bundles of joy can leave their parents cranky and depressed.
Volumes of research have been done showing that depressed mothers can negatively affect the health and well-being of their children. But what about depressed fathers?
Researchers at the New York University School of Medicine found an increased rate of mental health problems in children whose fathers had depressive symptoms.
Back in the ’60s, corporal punishment was common practice for a shocking 94 percent of parents in the US. While a lot of us may find this number unsettling, just as many don’t. In fact, half of all parents today admitted to punishing children by “spanking on the bottom with a bare hand” to a telephone poll conducted by the National Institutes for Mental Health.