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The Effects Of Bullying On Children 's Lives

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Introduction:
In the United States, there is an increasing amount of Bullying of various types among school-aged children. Bullying has not only become worse it is also more evident and proven now of the horrible affects bullying has on children causing long term psychological or physical damage and in some cases even ends in death as in the case of Phoebe Prince in 2004. (J. Holladay, 2011, par. 5) The chances and ability to inflict constant bullying or torment on a victim has increased as the internet and social media has come into children’s lives. This reduces the amount of time victims have without this negative influence on their lives and increasingly drives down their self-esteem raising the risk for them to do just what …show more content…

The higher accountability act should also expand out to the parents or guardians of the bullies that knowingly allow their children to use the internet to verbally abuse or ridicule their classmates. The parents of the bullies that know their children are bulling children at school should also be held accountable to a certain extant for their children’s behavior once the school has notified them of the situation. The only exception to this would be if they tried to get help or took their child to get help, once finding out what was going on.
The bullies should be held accountable as well though on a different level from adults. Bullies in these cases are still children or teenagers not adults and do hold a better chance of being rehabilitated. Everyone grows more accountable for their actions as well as they get older, from what is expected in school, to work places and even with the law. Studies have also proven that youth offenders especially those placed into juvenile delinquent facilities instead of facilities to get psychiatric help or community action programs designed to teach and rehabilitate are more likely to reoffend.
These crimes should be taken more serious as they are directed at the innocents of this society by those who should be the innocents of this societies and most often just do not understand how to handle the stress or pressure in their lives, or they have

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