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(Picture: PA Archive)Hundreds of reports of parents and carers being attacked by their teenage or young adult children are received by the Metropolitan police every year, a ground-breaking report revealed Tuesday.
The analysis of child-to-parent violence and abuse – primarily young adult men attacking their mother - unearthed 846 allegations in 2018, 653 in 2019 and 577 in 2020, including a spike when lockdown started.
