Fast facts: Poisonous parents
An online poll conducted by Tencent.com on August 7 found 53 percent of 49,479 Internet users surveyed agreed "parents are poisonous."
Another survey conducted by the Social Research Center of Beijing Youth Daily in July among 3,120 people aged between 20 and 40 showed:
8.9 percent have frequent conflict with their parents
69.6 percent of young Chinese conflict with their parents
59.7 percent felt a generation gap
1 percent can't communicate with their parents at all
The top 10 poisonous habits according to the Douban anti-parents group are:
Physical abuse
Verbal insults
Domestic violence or quarrels between parents
Invading children's privacy
Ignorant and indifferent to children
Interfering in children's schooling and career choices
Forcing children to marry or carry on family line
Seeking and taking away children's property
Sex discrimination
Acting indecently towards children
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