Why it's not always bad to be bullied: Learning to fight backhelps children mature, says study.
It is considered one of the most stressful experiences of childhood.
But standing up to bullies and classroom enemies can help children develop, psychologists claim.
In a study of American children aged 11 and 12, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, compared those who stood up to aggressors with those who did not.
Children who returned hostility with hostility appeared to be the most mature, the researchers found.Comment: Parents are usually advised never to be hostile when up against CPS (Child Protection Society) aggressors. When the CPS are threatening to take the children and place them in so-called "care", the parents are advised to be "co-operative". Any aggression on the part of the parents may harm they children. This is true, men the CPS will harm the children anyway by taking them and throwing them into forced fostercare.
My belief is that parents might feel better about themselves by fighting the aggressors of the CPS.
One should never accept that the familiy is bullied by the CPS. If every parent learns how to fight back the CPS aggression, it will make the CPS work more difficult.
If the children see that their parents are standing up to the CPS aggressors, the children will get a psychological edge which will help them survive forced fostercare.