Research overwhelmingly demonstrates that exposure to frequent, intense and poorly resolved conflict between parents has a long-lasting and negative effect on children’s mental health and development.
Indeed, how couples communicate and engage with each other in managing relationship conflicts both affects their ability to engage in effective parenting practices and can influence children’s mental health outcomes in infancy, childhood, and adolescence, with extended impacts on academic/educational attainment, physical health and well-being, employability, and future relationship stability in later life.
1.25 million children in Britain are exposed to interparental conflict.
Today we are delighted to add our support to the Sort it Out campaign, which aims to reduce, and one day end, the exposure of children to parental conflict.