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Darmik posted...

So where's the evidence for that?

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/developmentalpsychologyblog/2014/05/parental-influence-on-the-emotional-development-of-children/

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031912-114423?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed

Parenting decisions affect how children turn out physically, socially, and emotionally, but that is not to say parents should be obsessed with following certain steps to have a perfectly well-adjusted child. We accept that there is no perfect formula for parents to model behavior or speak to children in certain ways to make them have a perfect emotional development experience, and that places a limit on our exploration of this subject. Parents can help their children develop into emotionally stable people by giving them a supportive environment, positive feedback, role models of healthy behavior and interactions, and someone to talk to about their emotional reactions to their experiences.

Findings from the maturing birth cohorts have fostered a life course approach to adult health, function, and disease, and in some instances have suggested the processes involved. Advances in knowledge on unraveling life course relationships are not restricted to birth cohorts; i.e., other studies have contributed, although birth cohorts uniquely contain information from around the time of birth, have a broad range of data, and often follow up over several ages through childhood into adult life. Because birth cohort studies are observational, they provide information on associations rather than establish causality; hence, findings need to be considered together with evidence based on differing study designs. The growing number of cohorts born in different places and at different times provides increasing opportunities to establish the conditions under which life course relationships vary, providing further insights for public health. The birth cohorts suggest that broader socioeconomic conditions have a long-term impact across generations and throughout life. Researchers need to undertake a more complete exploration of the extent to which such risks to health acquired at earlier-life stages can be ameliorated by later protective factors. Further possibilities exist to test the extent to which adult health, function, and disease are affected by factors acting at different life stages, as well as the alternative processes through which life course relationships arise. In particular, the roles of developmental trajectories for life chances have been explored to some extent but will be important to consider for health outcomes later in life as cohorts age. New cohorts will address gaps in knowledge and assess whether relationships seen for previous generations apply to children of today.