Producing Peacemakers

Facts of Life

The yen for conflict may run in families, but it takes a bad environment to produce a bully. So say researchers at the University of Quebec in Montreal. They also concluded that reducing physically aggressive behavior (such as hitting) in toddlers might help prevent the development of social aggression (such as picking fights) as children get older.

Source: Child Development, July/August 2005 Illustration by Tim Rauch