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Purpose

- To discover what effects lack of parental attention has on developing children and teenagers.

- To see if there is a correlation between technology and lack of parental attention.

-Do children excel when they receive the proper parental attention ?

- How does attention or lack of affect one when developing?

Age and Sex of those surveyed

Attention and Technology

48% female, 52% male

4% grade 9, 36% grade 10, 8% grade 11, 40% grade 12, 12% victory lappers.

secondary research:

- Children are self oriented.

- A child will assume your distraction has something to do with them.

-Will begin to feel unimportant or like they've been bad.

Primary Research:

- Students were asked if they had ever felt ignored by their parents because they were on their electronic device.

- 60% answered yes.

The Importance of Parental Attention During Development

by Lillian MacLean

How does this affect children?

Secondary research:

- Children begins to think of themselves as a burden.

-Feel unimportant.

-May begin to seek negative attention.

-Will withdraw from parents because they don't feel like its "worth it"

Primary Research:

-33% admitted to misbehaving

-17% admitted to to seeking negative attention

-17% admitted to isolating themselves

-33% admitted to facing hardships when building relationships with others

Discussion

1. Do you believe that technology is interfering with parent child relationships?

2. How do you think that lack of parental attention affects children?

3. Would you rather have too much attention or not enough? Why?

Delinquency During Adolescence

Role of Attention and Babies

Secondary Research:

- Andrew Bolwby's 1944 experiment.

- Study on 44 delinquent teenagers with lack of normal affection, shame, or sense of responsibility.

- 14 of the 44 delinquents were characterized as having a lack of attention.

- 12 of the 14 had been separated from their caregiver early on in their lives.

Primary research:

-Students were asked if they would do outrageous things if they did not receive enough attention from their parents.

- 52% answered that they would.

Secondary research :

- study on infant and mother bonding done by Kennell in 1974 demonstrated how crucial maternal attention was to a baby's development.

- The babies who had more contact with their mothers thrived under the attention they received.

- Scored better on tests of physical and mental development at age 1

Primary Research:

- Students were asked if they thought it was important to pay attention to babies.

- 100% said that yes they thought it was important.

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