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How Parents Fighting Affects a Child’s Mental Health

January 9, 2022
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Every couple faces problems at some point in their relationship, despite how healthy and loving their relationship is. There’s bound to be a few problems at some point. While disagreements are normal, they can sometimes get ugly and result in serious conflicts. But if these conflicts happen in front of your children, they can seriously take a toll on their mental health.

From physical fights and verbal insults to the silent treatment, these toxic tactics can emotionally damage your children in the long run. Here are some of the effects that parent’s fighting can have on their child’s development.

How Parents Fighting Affects a Child’s Mental Health

According to research, children as early as 6 months old can exhibit reactions to harsh expressions or arguments. But it’s not just young kids who are affected by their parents fighting. In fact, older children of up to 19 years can be very sensitive to conflicts between their parents.

Children of all ages are affected by how their parents handle difficult situations. Here are some ways kids are impacted by the conflicts, arguments, and fights between their parents:

1. Children Become Insecure

When children see their parents fighting, it undermines their sense of security and affects their sense of stability in the family. When children are constantly exposed to their parent’s fighting, they will always stay worried about them getting divorced. They will find it difficult to do the normal things that people usually do in a normal family. They never know when a fight will begin, so they’ll always stay on edge.

2. Parents-Children Relationship Gets Affected

High-conflict situations are stressful for both children and parents. And as a stressed-out person, you cannot spend quality time with your family. The quality of our relationships seriously gets affected when we are under stress. And it makes it difficult for parents to show love and care to their kids when they are having problems with their partner.

3. Constant Stressful Environment

Constantly hearing intense fights in front of them is very stressful for children. It can create a very unhealthy environment in their house and affect their physical and emotional well-being, resulting in poor development.

4. Decreased Cognitive Performance

According to a study conducted in 2013, the cognitive performance of children can be impaired by stress that comes from living in a high-conflict environment. This study suggests that children living in such situations have problems regulating their emotions and concentration.

Their problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze information is affected. Children in high-conflict families are also very likely to drop out of school and get lower grades.

5. Relationship Problems

Being constantly exposed to hostile parents increases the likelihood of kids treating others the same way. It is quite common for children to follow in the footsteps of their parents and mirror their tactics when faced with an argument. As a result, their relationships with others also suffer, and they struggle to maintain healthy relationships with their partners. Since they are used to family discords, they will find them normal.

6. Behavioral Problems

High-conflict families share quite a few tactics. You will find them to be problematic, aggressive, violent, and delinquent. These tactics also get transferred to kids and they are more likely to have problems in social situations and have trouble adjusting in their classes.

7. Physical Development Problems and Eating Disorders

Many studies have associated high parental discord with eating problems including anorexia and bulimia. They will also have trouble sleeping, digesting food and face common health problems like headaches and upset stomachs due to being constantly stressed out from the fighting.

8. A Negative Outlook on Life

Children who are exposed to conflicts all the time are going to develop negative views about the family system. They will also undermine themselves, think negatively, and have lower self-esteem. In the longer run, such children are more likely to have anxiety, depression, insomnia, and behavioral problems.

9. Addiction

Children who grow up in problematic environments are more likely to find comfort in alcohol and drugs. According to multiple studies, kids who see their parents fighting all the time resort to smoking, substance abuse, and binge drinking. This is their way of avoiding the situation.

How to Prevent Yourself from Fighting In Front of Your Children

It’s common to have disagreements with your partner. But when that spat gets out of hand and you end up doing something that you didn’t mean to, you will end up hurting yourself, your partner, and your children who are watching you both fight from a distance.

A minor spat should not result in you irreparably harming your child. If you feel like your disagreement with your partner got out of hand, you can sit and talk with your children afterwards to reassure them and let them know that everything will be okay.

Discuss with them and tell them how sorry you are for the fight. Reassure them that the fight was just a minor argument and that you still love your family and will try your best not to do the same again.

Make sure that your kids know that you are a strong and loving family and that you will always be together. Explain how people do lose their tempers sometimes but that does not mean that they hate each other. Give them reassurance so they have mental security in their mind that comes with having a stable family.

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