Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "LIBERAL PARENTS Give Their Kids WORSE Mental Health Than Conservatives: Rising Reacts to Study" video.

@ricksterbobolishious7523 Offensive? What would that be? In any case, leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of what most people consider conservative parenting. European left, to be clear. Not contemporary American libs. I think everyone should read Hold On to Your Kids. It would freak a lot of liberals out. 😅
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Not what this study said. But if there is someone whose parenting advice not to take, it is Joe's.
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@marchuitt Willingness to seek treatment for the types of problems most people encounter at some point (and deal with on their own) is a well-known confounding variable, and more common among liberals, but it doesn't account for the entire difference. Above-average intelligence is also a confounding variable, as it can put a very young person more at the mercy of their environment. A positive environment will benefit them more than it does others, but a negative one will harm them more. (What did the COVID shutdowns and mandates just do? Nothing good for kids. Especially nothing good for sensitive, intelligent, sociable kids.)
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@topomusicale5580 It was a great analogy, and a problem that often comes up in medicine, especially psychiatry and psychology. I thought the pandemic taught us all to question studies.
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@norman_5623 People should have known that well beforehand. It is not easy to think cogently when mobbed, and confronted with relentless fear mongering. The time to learn how to use the NIH library was years ago. I learned that when working with the Daubert standard, and later when caring for my late father.
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@konstantinkrastev4478 The only question I have is whether kids from highly conservative homes feel able to tell the truth about how they feel. Many are too repressed to admit they have problems. Then you have the new trend of highly libbed-out parents bragging about how their offspring have all sorts of special needs. There is that confounding variable, too. Still, the basic trend sounds right to me. I just doubt that the difference is large.
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Leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this. European left, to be clear.
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@tonyduong3275 Dr. Gabor Maté co-authored the book Hold On to Your Kids --- the subtitle is something to the effect that in a child's life, parents must be more important than peers for the child to grow up happy and secure. Dr. Maté considers himself to be on the left. Most people in the US and Canada who follow the parenting advice in that book are conservative and religious.
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This was fine. I thought the pandemic taught us all to question studies -- not to mention all the psychological studies that are never replicated. You should always question them. In any case, leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this, and endorsed what might be labeled "conservative" parenting. European left, to be clear; not contemporary libs.
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@Heathernd Excellent. After all, we don't know why they are troubled about whether they are a boy or a girl, and whether anyone is really helping them. All the more reason to be kind to them.
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Leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this. European left, to be clear.
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@konstantinkrastev4478 Leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this. European left, to be clear.
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@tonyduong3275 Great points.
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@17Clovers I don't see how the variables he considered are relevant. Willingness to seek help, or to self-diagnose, or to be more self-involved and intolerant of ordinary anxiety or low mood could all be correlated with being a liberal. Some of these can produce actual mental health issues, but some probably don't. They show a propensity to self-identify as troubled, which isn't necessarily bad nor good. If your social group thinks talking about being depressed Makes You Special, well . . . You will talk about it.
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@elisereynolds945 I agree with that.
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@Heathernd 🙏
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