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SPENDING TIME WITH TEENS INCREASES AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT WITH TEENS

Feb 4 2008

Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles has long been a bastion of youthful rebellion. In the most populous city, in the most populous state in the union, there has long been a significant youth population ready to push against the Status Quo. From the rise of Hardcore Punk in the late seventies, to the flourish of gang warfare in the late eighties, there has rarely been a shortage of young men and women ready and willing to rise up against the establishment.

No better place perhaps than here to study the effects parents have on developing youth. A long term study, fifteen years in the making, studied one hundred families in varying economic and social positions, measuring the impact of time spent with parents has on developing children.

Doctor Alan Handle is the lead researcher of the study. “We feel it is a very important study. It has been a long debate as to how much influence a parent really has over their children’s lives. What we found was that young children had a very significant increase in language skills, reading comprehension, and the ability to socialize. It is a very positive result, though not one that was completely unexpected.”

The study shows a shift as the children get older. “Once they hit about ten years old, there seems to be a split. Some children begin to assert their independence; others remain much attached to their parents. We call this latter development Mommasboyism. This is where the real differences begin to show themselves, we begin to see what kind of people these children will become when they become adults.”

And the changes continue as the children move into being teenagers. “The children who are a little more attached tend to become very introverted and weird. Don’t have many friends; have bathing issues, those types of things. The other group tends to get rebellious and very irritable when the parents try to spend time with them. They tend to have more friends, go out a lot more, things of that nature.”

One child involved in the study, speaking anonymously, echoes Dr. Handle’s observations. “I hate it. My parents ask me about my day; want to know who I’m going out with. My Dad even tried to talk to me about sex. It’s just so gross and irritating.”

None of the children classed as “Momma’s Boys” were willing to speak with us.

“We feel this has been and continues to be a very important study,” continues Handle. “We will be continuing to follow these families as the children move into adulthood. Hopefully this will lead us into a new era of understanding how the child-parent dynamic works. I’m very excited to see where these children end up, though I’m unwilling to make any predictions.”

Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent

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