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from the won't-someone-think-of-the-children dept.
I found this recently-published article, Children who are bullied suffer worse long-term mental health problems than those who are maltreated interesting. Here are some excerpts:
A new study published in The Lancet Psychiatry shows that children who have been bullied by peers suffer worse in the longer term than those who have been maltreated by adults.
The research is led by Professor Dieter Wolke from Warwick's Department of Psychology and Warwick Medical School. The study is due to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Diego on Tuesday 28 April.
[...] Professor Wolke said: "The mental health outcomes we were looking for included anxiety, depression or suicidal tendencies. Our results showed those who were bullied were more likely to suffer from mental health problems than those who were maltreated. Being both bullied and maltreated also increased the risk of overall mental health problems, anxiety and depression in both groups."
An abstract and full article (pdf) are available.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday May 04 2015, @04:14PM
A kid often gets hit for reasons completely unrelated to anything the child has done. For example, a parent who has had a bad day at work may well swat their child for behavior which yesterday was laughed off or even fun. Because there is no clear standard of behavior that may induce the violent response, the violent response does at best nothing to instill discipline, and its real purpose is parental stress relief, regardless of what the parent is telling themselves. For example, a big strong man who just had his boss make him feel like a completely powerless working stiff might well hit his child in order to feel powerful again.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday May 04 2015, @05:32PM
Sure, but in the moment, they very frequently also excuse it with some minor or imagined misbehavior. There's no disputing that it frequently lacks complete rational thinking, but there's a "for their own good" attitude sometimes that's fully unjustified.