Not literally, of course! But a new study published in the journal Child Development
suggests that neither genetics nor environment alone can be blamed for
causing violent behavior in teenagers. As reported in the New York Times,
the researchers found that for most teens, an early history of small
behavioral problems tended to snowball into bigger issues, usually as
parents pulled away from difficult children and schools washed their
hands of them. Led by Dr. Kenneth Dodge at the Center for Child and
Family Study at Duke University, researchers followed 750 children from
preschool to high school. What they found, in Dodge's words, confounds both typical liberal and conservative responses to teen problems.
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