Fast facts: Poisonous parents

An online poll conducted by Tencent.com on August 7 found 53 percent of 49,479 Internet users surveyed agreed "parents are poisonous."

Another survey conducted by the Social Research Center of Beijing Youth Daily in July among 3,120 people aged between 20 and 40 showed:

8.9 percent have frequent conflict with their parents

69.6 percent of young Chinese conflict with their parents

59.7 percent felt a generation gap

1 percent can't communicate with their parents at all

The top 10 poisonous habits according to the Douban anti-parents group are:

Physical abuse

Verbal insults

Domestic violence or quarrels between parents

Invading children's privacy

Ignorant and indifferent to children

Interfering in children's schooling and career choices

Forcing children to marry or carry on family line

Seeking and taking away children's property

Sex discrimination

Acting indecently towards children