Children who often go hungry are more than twice as likely to develop impulse control problems and engage in violence later in life new research has found. Thirty-seven percent of the study's participants who had frequent hunger as children reported that they had been involved in interpersonal violence. Of those who experienced little to no childhood hunger 15 percent said they were involved in interpersonal violence. Previous research has shown that childhood hunger contributes to a variety of other negative outcomes including poor academic performance. The current study is among the first to find a correlation between childhood hunger low
