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Parents’ fighting has long term impact on kids, studies show

FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) - Two news studies suggest that even moderate amounts of parental conflict can wreak havoc on the lives of children, disrupting their sleep and causing negative feelings in their day-to-day lives.

Kids even feel distressed when the parents give each other the “silent treatment” in hope their children won’t notice they’re angry, said Patrick T. Davies, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester and lead research of one of the studies.

“These kids are still able to pick up on the fact that their parents are unhappy with each other,” Davies said, “and it comes through when you ask them questions about what they feel: they report feeling more fearful, more angry, more sad.”

In recent years, researchers have been studying how parental interaction affects children, with an eye toward finding the tipping point where problems in marriage begin to disrupt the emotional lives of children.

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EQUIP YOUR CHILDREN from Neil Anderson’s Daily Devotional

Thine, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty (1 Chronicles 29:11).

During a conference, I noticed a lady who wouldn’t sing with the rest of the group and seemed quite agitated. She slipped me a note after a morning session: “Please don’t leave town without helping me. I have been diagnosed as having multiple personalities and a dissociative disorder.”

During our time together the Lord revealed that when she was seven years old a terrifying dark presence appeared in her room. It told her it would kill her unless she granted its request to share her body. The presence didn’t leave until the day we met together. Later she wrote:

I started hearing voices and having imaginary friends when I was seven years old. Bulimia began at age 10, promiscuity at age 12. I spent 10 years in a cult. When I came out of the cult, I sought deliverance at the suggestion of a Catholic priest. But I beat up the priest and left bruised myself. It frightened me so badly I never did anything about it again.

I am now of a sound mind; the voices are gone. I feel clean and fresh inside for the first time I can remember. I don’t live in a tiny corner of my mind or outside my body. I live inside now with my Lord.

I wish that this woman’s experience of childhood seduction was an exception. But I have counseled hundreds of adults who can trace their problems back to childhood. That’s why it’s critical that you teach your children the reality of the spiritual world and equip them to defeat Satan’s attempts to seduce them with his lies.

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Dear Father, help me teach my children that resisting an evil presence in their room is as important as avoiding strangers on the street.

We are raising a generation so “sexualized” that even the moral compasses of many conservative Christian teens are skewed. This age of Internet pornography and satellite TV has virtually raped our children, and too many Christian parents are naïve about what their teenagers see, hear, experience, and believe about sex. To today’s teen, oral sex and mutual stimulation of the genitals (commonly called “going down” and “fingering” respectively) have replaced kissing.

How Did We Get Here?

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