How the Recession Made Mom a Harsher Parent

Monday, August 5, 2013 - 14:30 in Psychology & Sociology

During the Great Recession, economic instability may have caused mothers — particularly those with a gene variation that makes them more sensitive to changes in their environment — to engage in harsher parenting, a new study finds.

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