A new study has found a link between smacking and insulting children, and their developing cancer or heart disease later in life. Source: HWT Image Library
SMACKING and insulting your children may increase their risk of cancer and heart disease later in life, a controversial new study has found.
Scientists from the school of psychology at Plymouth University surveyed cancer and cardiac patients aged 40-60 in Saudia Arabia, where "the use of beating and insults is an acceptable parenting style," the researchers said.
"More frequent beating (once or more per month) and insults were associated with a significantly increased risk for cancer, cardiac disease and asthma," they said in the Journal of Behavioural Medicine, which published the study.
Those who had cancer were 70 per cent more likely to have been beaten as a child compared to a healthy group, and those with cardiac disease were 30 per cent more likely to have been beaten.
The researchers speculated that the disease risk was increased because this type of parenting causes stress in the child.
"A stress-inducing parenting style, even when (socially acceptable), has long term adverse health consequences," they concluded.
However the researchers said that, because they mostly came together, it was impossibly to say whether the beating or the insults were most to blame.
They also acknowledged that other factors may be at work such as wealth and education, which could be the root cause of both the parenting style and the bad health.
Other experts warned against reading too much into the study.
Dr Andrea Danese, from King's College London, told the London Daily Telegraph that the data could be biased by the memory of those surveyed for the study.
"Ill people may be more likely to report unhappy childhood," she said.
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