Parenting styles and political beliefs can play a major role influencing teenagers' mental health, new research from Gallup says.
A June 2023 study surveying 6,643 parents and 1,580 adolescents found that conservative and very conservative parents were the "most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health," the research reported in the Institute for Family Studies found.
Shannon Osaka, The Washington Post
Madison Colombo, Fox News
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