"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Here’s a study that shows when teenage mothers hand over their children to their own mothers to raise, the children end up with more behavior problems. This comes as no surprise. Having failed to raise their own children properly, why would they be any better at raising the next generation? Not willing to risk sounding judgemental, the author tries to lay the blame on the teenage mothers, but the data doesn't back this up. The children had more problems if they were raised by the grandmother regardless of whether or not their mothers had emotional problems, and kids raised by emotionally troubled mothers alone without grandma’s input, had fewer problems. I’ve noticed this in my own practice, too. The grandmothers more often than not end up interfering with the young mother’s decisions and eventually the young mom gives up and hands everything over to her mother. The successful ones are the ones who move out on their own and assume full responsibility for raising their child. posted by Sydney on
4/04/2002 07:24:00 AM
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