Child violence against parents on rise

(Guardian)
Children are increasingly likely to attack their parents both physically and verbally, a leading charity warns today.

Parentline Plus has received an astonishing 22,537 calls in two years from mothers and fathers struggling to cope with their aggressive offspring. Almost 7,000 spoke of incidents of physical abuse. The figures are revealed in a report by the charity today. When Family Life Hurts claims that the number and intensity of attacks is on the rise – and that mothers take the brunt of the aggression. The study cites aggressive behaviour at all ages, but says it peaks in children aged between 13 and 15.

The alarming statistics have come to light as Frank Field, the government's poverty adviser, called for children to be taught in school how to be good parents. The Labour MP will take proposals to Michael Gove, the education secretary, this week setting out how such skills could become part of the national curriculum. "It is now more difficult to raise children than it ever was – but nobody ever teaches you about parenting. It is assumed that by osmosis people will know what to do, but they don't," said Field. The politician, who is carrying out a review on poverty and life chances for the coalition government, claimed that there was little focus on parenting skills in prenatal or postnatal sessions.

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Oh dear. I suppose we should just recognise that the family is old fashioned and not suitable for these modern times. More children should be taken in by the state where there are honestly no paedophiles, we swear. What's the matter? Don't you love your children? Don't you love the government? Parenting is a privilege not a right, and you parents have failed to live up to the high standards expected of you under human rights rules. Best just hand them over to us and we can give them the psychiatric help they surely need, and you can go back to working 14 hours a day building up a pension that we have already stolen. There's a good citizen. Pat on the head for you.

(Childrens' bad behaviour has nothing to do with the fact that their diet vaccines air and water are poisoning them, and that the media schools and culture are poisoning their minds, honest! They need moar ritalin [i.e. cocaine] to hellp there spellunz.)