According to new research, parents who yell at their kids or call them “stupid” put their kids at a higher risk of using drugs, self-harm, and becoming arrested because it causes such severe harm, talking harshly to children should be recognized as a type of abuse, according to experts.
CDC Conducted A Survey About Child Verbal Abuse (Photo: newqq)
Adult-To-Child Verbal Abuse “Is Perpetrated By Shouting, Yelling, Denigrating The Child, And Verbal Threats”
According to the authors of a recent study on this behavior, adult-to-child verbal abuse “is perpetrated by shouting, yelling, denigrating the child, and verbal threats.”
It is said that child verbal abuse affects more children than physical or sexual abuse and that the percentage of victims may be as high as 40%.
The study looked at the available data on the effects of verbal abuse in childhood. One recent study, a UK study led by Prof. Mark Bellis and published in BMJ Open, used a representative sample of 20,556 UK citizens and discovered that those who had experienced child verbal abuse were nearly twice as likely to use cannabis (19.9%) than those who had not (10.8%), as well as nearly twice as likely to go to jail (4.4%) than those who had not (2.4%), compared to those who had not.
One recent UK study of 1,000 11- to 17-year-olds revealed that 41% of them believed that people, namely their parents, teachers, caregivers, and friends’ parents, frequently used cruel and distressing words to criticize, blame, or degrade them. One in ten (11%) said they saw such behavior daily, and half (51%) said they saw it once a week.
The words “you’re useless,” “you’re stupid,” and “you can’t do anything right” were listed by children as the most hurtful and disturbing ones they had heard. The most encouraging remarks kids overheard from adults, though, were “I’m proud of you,” “You can do it,” and “I believe in you.”
The Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Recently Conducted A Survey About Child Verbal Abuse
The World Health Organization study, which indicated that 36.1% of children globally had suffered emotional abuse, which includes child verbal abuse, is cited in the report by Dube, Fonagy, and other academics at UCL. That was a significant increase over the 22% who had experienced physical abuse and the 25% who had experienced sexual abuse.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently conducted a survey on young people in the US, and they discovered that 55% of older school children had been cursed at or subjected to other verbal insults in the home.
Child verbal abuse, according to Dube, “is not on the radar for detection” and is difficult to stop since so few adults are aware that it is a widespread and dangerous issue.
She went on to say that parents in particular need to be made aware of the fact that the words they use with their children can have an effect on them for the rest of their lives, comprehend why they do it, and begin using more encouraging language with their children.
READ ALSO: Federal Student Loan Debt Repayments Will Resume This Month Of October
