This might explain the whole Catholic schoolgirl thing. According to a recent study, there is a direct link between teacher verbal abuse and early onset of sexual intercourse.
Mother of God, those sharp-tongued Sisters of Mercy are causing more than bruised knuckles!
Canadian researchers were looking for a link between peer rejection and teacher verbal abuse when they came up with these findings. They tracked 312 grade-school kids, assessing them from Kindergarten through fourth grade for teacher verbal abuse, peer rejection and antisocial behavior. Then in the seventh grade, the same subjects were assessed for self-esteem and sexual activity.
What they found was, especially among girls, a direct link between the teacher verbal abuse and early onset of sexual intercourse. The verbal abuse is indirectly linked to delinquent behavior.
The article doesn’t say what the verbal abuse was exactly, nor did it say how frequently it was unleashed on those kids whose lives would be quite different in a matter of a few years. Were these kids repeatedly degraded in front of their peers or would a single incident drive them to promiscuity in middle school?
What do you think? Does your second-grader have a mean teacher? Did reading this just explain the first 20 years of your life?
