Running head: Bullying and Health: Affect of Bullying on School-Aged Children’s Health Bullying and Health: Affect of Bullying on School-Aged Children’s Health Carmalita Thrash Methods of Inquiry Carrie Johnson, Ed.D April 28, 2011 Bullying and Health: The Affect Bullying has on School-Aged Children’s Health Bullying is an intentional and persistent form of aggressive behavior that can last for long periods of time (Sharp & Smith, 1994). Lately, the concern about bullying in schools has not only increased but it appears that it is on the rise. The upside to this is that finally the world is beginning to acknowledge just how evil bullying at school really is. Bullying has supplied our schools and our surroundings with a negative and devastating influence that has begun to deny children their right to a fearless education (Banks, 1997). Being a victim of bullying is a very difficult and painful experience and while a child is in attendance at school they should be clear from harm and danger.
16.1 (January-February 2007): p.22. From Academic One File Nationwide the drug meth is harming children, and devastating families, the child welfare agencies and law enforcement have joined together to help stop some of the problem, this drug is so addictive it has made it hard for the welfare agencies to secure the government resources and community support. The article speaks of some of the ways that agencies are trying to slow the problem. It is with education, advertising and community action programs, these programs are addressing children ages twelve to seventeen years of age. The article also states that an estimated 20,000 children in foster homes care could leave the system if permanency option like federally supported guardianship were offered.
Does Child Maltreatment Lead to Crime? By: Charissa Zugg August 3, 2001(written on) Does Child Maltreatment Lead to Crime? Child maltreatment has been a growing concern for many years. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2007 approximately 794,000 children were determined to have been the victims of child abuse and/or neglect as well as an estimated 1,760 children younger than 18 died as the result of maltreatment (Hammond, 2011). Crime is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes for maltreatment.
FAHCSIA (2012) justifies its view on family factors as the causes by providing data; 67% of teens left a home that had single-parent household or remarried families. Parents’ divorce or a mother or a father passing away leads to family change. Young people come into conflict with their single parent, which over time causes emotional break down. Teenagers find it difficult to deal with the relationship with new family members. In addition, family breakdown is a potential issue for violence.
Teen homelessness is alarmingly high in the United States. “Approximately 1.6 million youth ages twelve to seventeen had run away from home and slept on the street in the past twelve months.” (1800Runaway.org) Fifty-percent of those teens will be trafficked for sex in the first forty-eight hours of leaving home. (National Runaway Hotline) Members of society often think that runaway kids are disobedient and rebellious, preferring to live on the streets rather than following the rules. The most prevalent reason children and teens runaway is because of the maltreatment they experience at the hands of parents or caregivers. Eighty percent of runaway and homeless girls reported having ever been sexually or physically abused.
Did you also know that millions of students around the world are bullied every year? B. Thesis: There are no positive aspects of bullying. C. Reason to Listen: You should listen to this speech because if you haven’t been bullied before, your kids in the future may experience it or someone close to you might face it. D. Statement of Credibility: I’ve been a victim of bullying in my childhood. E. Preview: In this speech, I’m going to explain how bullying affects people mentally, physically and emotionally and state two positive coping methods and two negative coping methods.
Children are facing physical and emotional damage. They are missing their education. According to statistics reported by ABC News, 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of being bullied (Bullying Statistics, 2013). The worst consequence of bullying, by far, is suicide, now being referred to as “bullycide.” Children as young as nine years old are taking their own lives. So why do bullies bully?
The effects of recent enlargement in divorce rates are negative effects. Most couples normally have children when they get married. As a result, divorces can directly have an effect on children. Children living in single parent families are more probably to get pregnant as teenagers, drop out of high school, abuse drugs and have aggressively emotional and behavioral problems, which lead to social problems. Some children decide to go out of their home when their parents separate from each other, and subsequently they become homeless children.
How can we as victims, witnesses, or observers make a change to cyberbullying ? Many parents seem to question their child’s actions on a day-to-day basis. Signs of bullying are things we must observe. Students may come home with damaged or missing items, have difficulty sleeping, or just seemed depressed. The reports on cyberbullies, ruined reputations and dangers have caused so much fear against parents.
Violence has always been prevalent in America and in American families, affecting parents and influencing their very own children. In Dudley Erksine Devlin's article, “Children and Violence in America,” Devlin analyzes as to why there is increasing violence among the younger age groups of society–children and teenagers. He points out that Americans believe that violence comes from either, TV and movies or from a social level. He tells the reader not to be deceived by Americas “either/or” thought process and consider his opinion “that the news media themselves are the underlying cause of our crisis” (par. 3) One point, Devlin Argues, is that violence seems to be cut out of the screens of television and movies and pasted onto the minds of children and teens.