At home or in school, frequent yelling at children under the pretext of discipline carries adverse consequences. It is not ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who had been criticized, insulted or threatened by a parent growing up were more likely to be anxious or depressed, in a new study. Even when the same or ...

A new systematic review by researchers at UCL and Wingate University has highlighted the importance of identifying childhood verbal abuse by adults as a standalone subtype of child maltreatment, to ...

When members of a couple are upset with each other’s behavior, it can be quite tempting to express their negative feelings to the other person through forms of verbal and nonverbal aggression to ...

A 20-year longitudinal study has found that verbal aggression in adult romantic relationships is best predicted by the level of verbal aggression participants’ fathers directed toward their mothers, ...

Violence and verbal abuse against teachers by parents and pupils are rising – a symptom of social fractures and eroded trust in authority. Teachers report a range of aggressive behaviour from parents, ...