Maltreating marriage affects your baby's sleep

As a result of a recent study of young children posted on Child Development magazine on May 11, marital marriages not only affect parents but also cause some problems related to sleep. sleeping in children.

Anne Mannering, a researcher at Oregon State University, said parents who have signs of marital unrest (such as separation) when the child is 9 years old, when they are 18 months old, These children will experience some sleep problems (trouble sleeping, sleepy sleep .).

' Parental relationships affect paternity, mother-child relations and vice versa. In other studies, it is thought that stress is a factor that affects badly to sleep, moreover, we know that the period of infancy is an important time to help children form a sleep pattern. sleep '.

With this research, scientists are still unclear, the reason why this leads to this relationship. However, according to Ms Mannering, there are two hypotheses given: First, marriages fail to lead to stress, thereby directly or indirectly affecting the sleep of young children. Secondly, an unhappy marriage makes parents neglect in taking care of their children and become more irresponsible.

However, Mannering also emphasized that the results of this study are only true for couples who are on the verge of divorce, intent on divorce rather than considering family conflicts.

The study was conducted with 350 households, from the age of 9 months to 18 months. All of the children when they first entered the study were carefully tested, making sure there were no sleeping problems related to the gene.

The researchers found that the results were still true even when they took into account other factors such as the baby's difficult temperament, parents' anxiety and the child's birth order. In the future, scientists hope to conduct additional research to determine whether these sleep-related problems still exist when they reach age 2.