Screaming, over-enthusiastic parents are not only found in Hollywood and Bollywood films and on television it seems.

According to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey of over 23,000 adults in 22 countries, American and Indian parents behave the most unsavory when their kids play sports. Unsavory behaviour hear means that they are the most physically or verbally abusive towards a coach or official at a children’s sporting event.

But people in Mexico, Japan and France were amongst the least likely to see parents behaving badly while their children played sports.

According to the survey, men (41 per cent) were more likely than women (33 per cent) to have witnessed abusive behaviour. People in a higher income bracket and those who were more educated were also more likely to have seen parents acting physically and verbally abusive.

What do you think? Are we Indians “badly behaved”, or just extremely passionate and enthusiastic about our sports?

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