By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bullying starts as early as preschool for some children and may get progressively worse, a new study shows. The study also found that children who show early signs of being physically aggressive (at age 17 months), who come from families with harsh parenting styles, or from poor families seem more likely to be consistently the target of bullying by their peers. "Preventive efforts should start early and focus on the child and their family to alleviate or mitigate these negative life experiences and their related outcomes," Dr. Michel Boivin from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, an investigator on the study, told Reuters Health. In the report, published today in Archives of General Psychiatry, Boivin and colleagues point out that as many as 1 in 10 children are bullied by...
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