Parents Can Impact Their Children's Attitudes Toward Violence . Advertising Information Parents Can Impact Their Children's Attitudes Toward Violence Parents' attitude toward fighting has greater impact on their children's aggressive behaviors than any other family factor, a new survey of 8,865 Texas middle school students finds. What parents tell their children about fighting tells a lot about the degree to which their children get involved in fighting, injury and carrying weapons, according to researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Texas at Houston.
Parents can play an important role in preventing violence among adolescents.
The results appear in the December issue of Health Education and Behavior . Aggressive behavior scores were calculated individually for each student on the basis of self-reports of the number of fights, injuries, and carrying of weapons they said they had engaged in before the survey was taken. School violence prevention programs should have a strong parental component to take advantage of the influence parents can exert. The study was partially supported by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All information contained in this site is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only.