1. RP British Accent Pronunciation News article: Bully in the
next bedroom - are we in denial about sibling aggression? Part 2
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2. The children were all particularly mean to the younger
sister Tracy, who had been the focus of their mother's
attention.
3. In the afternoons, after school and before their father came
home from work, they would tease Tracy until she phoned her mother
to try to get them to stop.
4. "I remember us saying to her: Mum can't do anything about it
- she isn't coming here, recalls Laura.
5. And my dad - I think he was so overwhelmed that he only
ended up dealing with the most serious things."
6. Her father later told Laura that he had sent her foster
brother back to the orphanage because he was being bullied so much
by Laura's middle sisters, a pair of twins.
7. There is a growing recognition of sibling bullying. One
paper published this spring in the Journal of Interpersonal
Violence highlighted ways in which it differs from playground or
cyber bullying.
8. Twenty-seven pairs of adult siblings were questioned about
how they had treated each other during childhood.
9. Most reported they had been bullied, with around a third
saying it had gone on for several years.
10. About three-quarters of the sample said they had been both
bully and victim.
11. Despite the aggression, victims and perpetrators gave high
ratings for closeness, both before and after the incidents they
described.
12. Most strikingly of all, a majority viewed it as acceptable
and almost all the respondents - 85% - said such behaviour should
be expected.
13. "From the young person's perspective and the parent's
perspective, we do expect that siblings are going to fight with one
another," says Robin Kowalski, the lead author of the study.
14. "But there's normal discord within sibling relationships,
and then there's bullying. And I can't tell you where that line
is."
15. Corinna Tucker says that some parents believe conflict
between siblings can be healthy since it teaches them how to handle
difficult situations.
16. But her study, based on the large telephone survey of
children, showed that children who reported recent sibling
aggression were more likely to be suffering from mental
distress.
17. Research led by Dieter Wolke at the University of Warwick
on large samples of British and Israeli schoolchildren has found
that half the children who suffered from sibling bullying also
suffered bullying at school
18. - and that this group was particularly at risk of
unhappiness or developing behavioural problems.
19. "If you only have sibling bullying or school bullying you
are about 2.7 times more likely to have behaviour problems, but if
you have both then it's 14 times more likely," says Wolke.
20. "And the point about this is that you don't have any
escape. It's 24/7."
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