Risk Factors: Sibling Emotional Abuse

There is yet to be sufficient research into how and why sibling abuse occurs. But experts have found a number of risk factors that can make sibling emotional abuse more likely. I have used this website and this one to restate experts' findings. I have also made some of my own observations, which I have also included below. 

• Parents are uninvolved 
• Parents are in denial that there's a problem
• Parents don't understand that it's a big deal 
• Parents think they must always hold children equally accountable
• Parents are permissive
• Parents accept sibling rivalry as normal, rather than working to minimize fights
• Parents have not taught conflict management from early on
• Parents don't intervene
• The abuser has a personality that craves power
• The abuser has low self-esteem
• The abuser exhibits inflexibility, or a low tolerance for frustration
• Jealousy after the baby arrives initiates abusive behavior in the older sibling, which later become habits
• The abuser lacks empathy
• Abuse has been modeled for children