Most Families Encourage Children to Act Prosocially Rather Than Aggressively

Essay

Most families encourage children to act prosocially rather than aggressively in their day-to-day interactions with other people. But in some families, children learn to be aggressive and coercive in order to get what they need and want.
a. Give at least two different reasons why a young child in an aggressive family environment might show a great deal of antisocial behavior and relatively little prosocial behavior when he or she first begins kindergarten.
b. Describe at least two effects that such antisocial behaviors at school are likely to have on the child's social-emotional development.