Researchers from Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology have defined adolescent-to-parent violence as “physical violence, threats of violence and criminal damage towards parents or carers by children aged 13 to 19”.
As well as being physically assaulted, parents reported that their teenage children had smashed up property, kicked holes in doors, broken windows, thrown things at them and made threats. Many were living in fear of their own children.
During the course of the study the Oxford researchers analysed data compiled by the London Metropolitan Police and found that in one year alone (2009/10), there were nearly 1,900 reported cases of teenagers committing violent assaults against their parents or carers.
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