Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Problems when parents fight Children are directly affected by their parents' conflict when they witness their arguments and fights. Mark Cummings and his colleagues showed children live or videotaped interactions between adult actors behaving like two conflicted parents in a home setting as well as studies of observed conflicts between their parents. Adults disagreed about issues such as which movie to see or argued about who would wash the dishes. The more frequent and violent their conflicts and the more often the arguments were about something a child had done or said, the more likely children were to be upset and to blame themselves for the incident (Cummings & Davies, 2010; Davies et al., 2006). Children who observed intense and destructive conflicts between their parents suffered from emotional insecurity, depression, anxiety, behavior problems, relationship difficulties, and poor emotion regulation, even years later (Cummings et al., 2006; Cummings & Davies, 2010). Some children may even develop eating disorders in adolescence as a response to parent-parent conflict (George et al., 2014). Need Assignment Help?