Aug. 15, 2002
Should children share a bed with their parents? In an 18-year longitudinal study described in the August issue of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, bedsharing offered no benefit and also no harm.
“Many perhaps most experts do not advocate bedsharing, and the American Academy of Pediatrics cautions against ‘routine’ bedsharing,” lead author Paul Okami, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, says in a news release, citing concerns about sleep disorders or interference with normal psychosexual development.
On the other hand, bedsharing is the norm for most of the world’s children, and proponents suggest long-term benefits such as an increased capacity for intimacy. “A number of clinicians and child-rearing experts have advocated purposeful parent-child bedsharing, or ‘the family bed,’ ” Okami says.
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