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Abusing One's Parents
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 8, 2012 (message contributor)
ABUSING ONE'S PARENTS
According to aabss.org, "Nine to 33% of parents report being abused by their children ranging in age from 10 to 23... Some studies report that whites are more likely to batter than blacks;... [some] Studies show... that middle and upper class families have higher rates ... The most frequent forms of parent abuse...are physical at 57%; followed by verbal abuse at 22%, the use of a weapon, usually a knife or gun, at 17%; and throwing items at 5% ... Eleven percent of children under age ten, regardless of gender, physically abuse their parents.
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