If aggression and violence are modeled in the home, the child learns that coercion is associated with power and getting one's own way. Injustices Set the Stage for Perception of Threat and Aggressive Behavior Children can learn aggression through watching someone else engage in it. Gerald Patterson's Coercion Model of aggression suggests that parents who lack parenting skills unwittingly train their children to be noncompliant and act in antisocial ways. Poor parental discipline skills and coercive management practices cause escalation of child-parent conflict and increase children's aggression. The child and parents elicit negative behavior from each other.
Children feel helpless and sense the lack of justice and live under conditions of threat.
The angry child perceives threat in situations that are unclear. He retaliates with impulsive anger thus distancing his classmates. He distorts what he sees and perceives injustice in small things which others would overlook. Peers' hostile comments only convince him that his beliefs of threat are valid. He ends up being rejected and isolated from his peers.