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‘Relationship Hitmen’: Your Mom Has a Talent for Subtly Killing Friendships She Doesn’t Like, Scientists Say

If you have friends your mom doesn’t like, no you don’t.

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Moms seem to have a sixth sense about your friends. They’re good at sniffing out the bad influences from the genuinely chill hangs long before you figure it out yourself. According to a new study published in Child Development by researchers from Florida Atlantic University and Mykolas Romeris University, when moms disapprove of one of their kids’ friends, there’s a strong chance that the friendship is doomed.

Researchers tracked nearly 400 Lithuanian students between the ages of 9 and 14 over two school years, focusing on their confirmed mutual best friendships, the kind of close friends who identified each other as best friends across multiple........

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