Teen girls in UK becoming more aggressive, experts say

London: The number of teenage girls who are physically aggressive and lash out at school and at home has risen at an alarming rate, experts claimed on Monday.

More and more girls are binge drinking and, tired of being regarded as the passive sex, are emulating male behaviour.

The disturbing trend has been noted by the British Association of Anger Management, which is dealing with increasing numbers of out-of-control and aggressive young women.

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The association's findings echo statistics which found the ladette yob culture was on the rise, with 200 women convicted of violent crime every week. The number of women found guilty of murder, vicious assault or other attacks has risen by 81 per cent since 1998.

Leading anger management psychotherapist Mike Fisher said there was a strong link between the rise in binge-drinking among young girls and their physical aggression. He said: "Girls are generally better at dealing with their feelings, whereas boys keep it inside. However, when girls drink they are anaesthetising their feelings.

"Suddenly they are not able to cope with their emotions appropriately, but that anger has to go somewhere.

"Unlike their mothers, who perhaps did not drink as much, they become violent."