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Finland largest tabloid report that schools and kindengardens are buying armors to protect themselves against children. According to science, children who grow up with both parents or the father have better emotional and social adjustment, as well as cognitive development, compared to children who grow up with a single mother. In Finland, children are victims of mothers relational aggressiveness.

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Finland largest tabloid report that schools and kindengardens are buying armors to protect themselves against children.

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Why is this happening?

The children's behavior is called antisocial, and emerge during the first four years of living in the home environment (Calkins och Keane, 2009; Moffitt et al. 2001). The opposite to antisocial behavior is emotional and social adjustment.

According to science, children who grow up with both parents or the father have better emotional and social adjustment, as well as cognitive development, compared to children who grow up with a single mother (Baker et al. 2020; Farran och Formby, 2011; LaFlamme et al. 2012; Olsson, 2022; Rolle et al. 2019; Sethna, 2017; Vieno et al. 2009, 2014; Österberg, 2004).

Studies using proper measures, e.g. the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al. 1996) shows the following pattern:

• Physical violence - women account for slightly more than half of occurrences and injuries.
  
  
• Lethal violence - equally unlikely (0.0000005) to affect children, men or women (Liem och Koenraadt, 2008). Psychological violence (relationship aggression) - typically female.
  
  
• Psychological violence (relational aggressiveness) includes parental alienation is typically a female behavior.

(Archer,2000, 2004; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Bergkvist, 2002; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005; Thornton et al. 2012).

Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates:Intimate Partner Violence (34 minuter).

In Finland:

• women's relational aggressiveness is their biggest challenge to deal with (Helsingfors police, April, 2022).
  
  
• Finnish school children fail reading comprehension and numeracy (the Ministry of education and culture, May, 2022).
  
  
• 40% of Finnish school kids are victims of psychological violence at home (Estlander, November, 2023).

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