| Why The Young Kill - Newsweek |
May 3, 1999 ... And while that makes stemming the tide of youth violence a lot harder, ... A child who suffers repeated "hits" of stress--abuse, neglect, .... From the first moments of childhood the brain acts as a historian, ...
This, then, is how having an abusive parent raises the risk of youth violence: it can change a child's brain. Forever after, influences like the mean-spiritedness that schools condone or the humiliation that's standard fare in adolescence pummel the mind of the child whose brain has been made excruciatingly vulnerable to them.
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