The effect of parents' childhood traumas on parent behavior and attitudes towards children's rights

The aim of this research is to discuss the effects of childhood traumas of parents on parental behaviors and attitudes towards children's rights. Within the framework of this purpose, the conceptual and theoretical framework of childhood traumas, parenting and child rights attitudes are included in the study. Then the research methodology is presented. Sociodemographic Information Form, Parent Child Rights Attitude Scale, Alabama Parental Behavior Scale and Childhood Mental Trauma Scale were used in the study. Data were collected from 284 parents living in Istanbul. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS 25. The results of the research show that the childhood traumas of the parents have significant effects on the parental behaviors and attitudes towards children's rights. The sexual harassment sub-dimension does not differ according to the parenting attitudes of the participants' parents. It was revealed that emotional abuse, physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, and excessive protection-control sub-dimensions differ according to the parenting attitudes of the participants' parents. Emotional abuse, physical abuse, emotional neglect and overprotection-control traumas of the participants who has a democratic child-rearing attitude are significantly less than the participants who adopt an authoritarian, inconsistent and overprotective child-rearing attitude. In addition, participants who has a democratic child-rearing attitude have significantly less physical neglect and sexual traumas than those who adopt an inconsistent and overprotective child-rearing attitude.