Why SA's kids are becoming killers

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By Edwin Naidu

Pressure to perform at school, exposure to domestic abuse and access to violence on television are turning some South African children into killers, child experts say.

Bridgit Soellaart, an educational psychologist, said children are more exposed to trauma than they had been in the past. Also, there had been an increase in domestic violence and a drop in parental supervision in the home.

Soellaart said there was an increase in aggression among children, and in some instances there have been incidents in which children, especially those raised by single mothers, had abused their parent.

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