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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've actually done some research on this because I will be moving at some stage during my kids childhood (they are currently 1 and 3). I've found that the more moves during childhood the higher the risk of adulthood depression. I've concluded that any moves will have to be finalised by the time the oldest is 10. I would never move when my oldest is 15.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240717120958.htm
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Look to the research rather than random folks opinions. Yes, moving in late childhood can have permanent negative impacts.

https://medium.com/@washingtonpost/moving-as-a-child-can-change-who-you-are-as-an-adult-c40e46740156

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Moving as a child can change who you are as an adult
Switching homes can be a highly disruptive experience for a child, particularly one in their early teens
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By Christopher Ingraham

Mywife and I recently packed our 2-year-old twins into their car seats and moved them halfway across the country to a new home in Minnesota. During the five or so days we spent on the road with them, we had ample opportunity to reflect on what sorts of terrible harms we were inflicting on their fragile little toddler brains.

Did they understand what was going on? Would they like the new place when they got there? Were we destroying their chances of ever getting into Harvard by letting them watch eight hours of garbage cartoons in the back seat of a Honda CR-V, day in, day out?

As it turns out, a study recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has some answers to those questions. British researcher Roger Webb and his colleagues took advantage of an amazingly complete data set — containing records on literally every single person born in Denmark between 1971 and 1997 — to investigate how moving in childhood affected outcomes later in life.

The focused on a number of negative outcomes including suicide attempts, criminality, psychiatric disorders, drug abuse, and unnatural mortality. Moving during childhood was linked to increased incidence of all these negative outcomes later in life. Moving multiple times in a single year made long-term harms even more likely.

And the group of youngsters most likely to feel the ill effects of moving are kids in early adolescence, between 12 and 14. A child who goes through a residential move at age 14 has double the risk of suicide by middle age. Her risks of engaging in violent crime of abusing drugs more than double. And these risk ratios hold true even after controlling for parents’ income and psychiatric history."[/quote]

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