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Childhood bullies are more likely to commit acts of violence against partners

By Staff Writer

A recent study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows that boys who bully others during childhood are more likely to abuse their partners during adulthood.

In order to conduct the study, a researcher from the Harvard School of Public Health, along with her colleagues, went to urban community health centers in order to survey almost 1,500 men between the ages of 18 and 35. These participants were asked questions about their experiences with intimate partner violence as well as school bullying.

The results indicate that over 40 percent of these men bullied others as children, while about 16 percent said they committed physical or sexual acts of violence against a partner in the past year. Of these violent individuals, about 32 percent were frequent bullies and 26 percent were rare bullies during their childhood.

Using this data, researchers found that frequent childhood bullies were almost four times as likely to have committed acts of intimate partner violence in the past year.

Parents who are worried that their children frequently bully others at school may want to consider enrolling them in therapeutic schools.  

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