--- title: Parenting: You Really Can Blame Your Parents for Everything description: How you're treated by your parents as a child affects your behaviors into adulthood, a new study shows canonical: https://time.com/3639171/parenting-blame-parents/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-18T20:43:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:44.294Z article:section: Health og:title: You Really Can Blame Your Parents for Everything og:description: How you're treated by your parents as a child affects your behaviors into adulthood, a new study shows og:url: https://time.com/3639171/parenting-blame-parents/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38f8a15bc78a067e/69876fee3c1639c30e450c1b/132313941-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5028 og:image:height: 2828 og:image:alt: 132313941 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Really Can Blame Your Parents for Everything twitter:description: How you're treated by your parents as a child affects your behaviors into adulthood, a new study shows twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38f8a15bc78a067e/69876fee3c1639c30e450c1b/132313941-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Really Can Blame Your Parents for Everything > Sponsored content. 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Researchers studied how their mothers interacted with the kids during their first three years of life, and as they got older, they asked their teachers about the child’s social skills and academic competence. Once the kids were in their 20s and 30s, researchers asked them about their education and relationships. Children with mothers who practiced a more sensitive kind of parenting during their first three years of life—those who responded to their child promptly, had positive interactions with their kid and made their child feel secure—went on to have more successful relationships and higher academic achievement compared to those whose mothers didn’t engage with them in this way. The influence on academics appears to be stronger, but the overall effects of parenting could even be seen past age 30. [Prior research](http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/dev/35/6/1399/) has shown that sensitive caregiving can influence social development when a child is young, but the new study shows that even despite economic factors, this type of parenting impacts children well into their adult lives—in a wide range of unexpected ways.  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