If primary caretakers have a negative attitude toward their child, it increases the risk that their child will grow up hostile towards others. Aggression is not just a result from child abuse; a large amount of children raised by abusive parents also harm themselves. Negative behavior results from child abuse because abused children don’t learn appropriate techniques for handling life’s disappointments. If children aren’t raised with coping skills, they’re much to likely to act ‘inappropriately’ than if the children have developed more reasonable approaches. The effect of poor parenting as reported by Dr. Geoffrey Dahmer in “The Bully Papers”, is that parents get the child they deserve.