How Children May Be Affected

While buy inflatable christmas the couples decide whether to stay together or say goodbye, the children pay a price. "The verbal conflict, day in and day out, and putting each other down and demeaning the other partner has a lot of negative impact on children," said Mona El-Sheikh, a psychology professor who studied children's physiological responses to marital conflict for a federally funded project. Dr. Jonathan Stern, a psychologist in Manhattan who analyzed the video footage for Primetime, said children may believe they are the cause of what they see. Rather than becoming desensitized to their screaming parents, the wounds of children who see and hear too much fighting deepen over time; there may be physical effects as well. In a six-year study involving more than 2,000 families, El-Sheikh measured children's physical stress - responses parents may not see because they take place inside the body. When watching parents fight, the young subjects often had increased heart rates, faster breathing, and more sweat gland activity. Even when they became familiar with the fights, the child's level of stress did not diminish. When the parents made up, the lab levels returned to normal. "Those for sale Sumo Wrestling Suits children also get sick more frequently, tend to become more aggressive, have more depression and anxiety, and don't sleep as well as children from lower conflict homes," said El-Sheikh. Witnessing the strife, said Stern, may also affect what kind of parents the children will become themselves. "This is the norm for them, and if it's the norm for them, it's going to be the norm for them when they are husbands and wives themselves," he said. "The anger is very toxic to these kids, to their self-confidence, to their ability to resolve conflicts in their own lives down the road," added Stern.