Is contact with parents always best? Child mental health study challenges convention

Survey for Grandparents Plus charity shows that unsupervised meetings can harm young people’s mental health

Children brought up by extended family members should not always have contact with their parents as it could harm their mental health, according to new research.

Interviews carried out for the charity Grandparents Plus examined the effects of parental contact on the increasing number of children being cared for by relatives other than their parents .

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2Bn7nt4