According to a 2015 study by researchers at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, more than 60 percent of students and faculty members lived with depression or anxiety, with some reporting strict parenting as the cause.⁠ ⁠ Kao Sovandara, one of the researchers, said in many cases the parents were treating their children badly due to past trauma they had suffered. “Some parents have been through war, and they were taught to apply coercive ways to get people under control,” he said.⁠ ⁠ “Sometimes, parents even transfer their former aspirations onto their children without acknowledging whether it was in the kid's interest. So some children tend to follow someone else’s dream instead of their own dream.”⁠ ⁠ But he added that parents still played an important role in child development, which could be the most positive influence in a child’s life.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #child #kid #growingup #science