Childhood bullying leads to long-term mental health problems

Being picked on by peers worse threat than child abuse, study suggests

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WITHOUT PEER  U.S. and British evidence indicates that repeated bullying in childhood leads to at least as many or more mental health problems in young adulthood as maltreatment by adults does. 

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Bullying by peers scars children’s mental health over the long haul as much as — or more than — abuse by adults does, a new analysis of U.S.