High levels of domestic abuse revealed among teenagers

"The research found that over half of the 1,203 Year 9 pupils had some direct experiences of domestic abuse, whether as victims, witnesses, or perpetrators. It was led by Professor David Gadd from The University of Manchester and Dr Claire Fox from The University of Keele. Follow up focus groups revealed a range complicated attitudes towards domestic abuse by children, which went some way to explain the figures...."

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