Bullying is a momentous public health problem that currently surges our

society. Between 20% and 56% of young people have involved in bullying annually
(Center For Disease Control And Prevention, 2012). What is bullying actually mean
that it has considered as a public health problem by the authorities?. Bullying is a
repetitive verbal, physical, social or psychological aggressive behavior by a person or
group directed towards a weaker person or group that is intended to cause harm,
distress or fear. A study by Juvoven, Nishina, and Graham (2001) shows that up to
three-quarters of young adolescents experience bullying such as rumors, name-calling,
or public ridicule, and up to one-third report more extreme experiences of coercion or
inappropriate touching. It has become a major issue that kids and adolescents have
to face in their school periods. As a part of the society, I believe that bullying can be
stopped from haunting children life ever again.

Before we further discuss how bullying can be stopped, we must know

what is the causes of bullying. There are 3 main causes of bullying behaviors which
are was attributed to family, emerged at school and deteriorate in society. Today’s
school and campus bullying behavior are so common that the cause is multiple and
became complex instead of a single factor. Bullying behavior is formed gradually.
Once a child is found to commit bullying behavior, it may cause many negative impacts
to their adulthood if not being early corrected or prevented such as antisocial behavior
and criminal behavior. (Hazler, 1998; Olweus,1984). Bullies find victims who are
perceived as weaker than them. The common victims of bullying usually are less
popular, over or underweight, different race or religion and have the different
socioeconomic background. Usually, bullies sense insecure and may feel inferior to
others. They treat their peers like dirt as a way to make themselves feel better.
Persecutors usually come from dysfunctional families in which their used bullying as
an act to forget the issues that they face in the house or hostel. They faced problems
such as family members’ involvement in gangs, poor parental supervision, negative
family environment, parental conflict, domestic violence, low parental communication,
lack of parent emotional support, authoritarian parenting, inappropriate discipline, and
parental abuse (Baldry, 2003). Bullies cannot regulate their emotions: When people
get frustrated and angry, they can usually stop themselves from doing things that will
hurt others
 Bully has many effects whether to someone or some group. Both victim and
bullies will have the different effect when they involved in bullying. Victims of bullying
may experience negative physical, school and mental health problems. Children will
experience depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness,
changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to
enjoy. Children will also face decreased academic achievement such as GPA and
standardized test scores and school participation. They are more likely to miss, skip,
or drop out of school. For the bullies themselves, they will engage in violent and other
hazardous behaviors into their adulthood. They could expose themselves to alcohol
abuse or drug, criminal convictions, abusive behaviors toward family and friends and
much more.

The trend of bullying happens in school, campus or other places can be

stopped. This could only be achieved if every party play their role in society in stopping
this abusive behavior from happening again. Firstly, Peers or friend must play their
roles in stopping bullying from occurring. Peers have to defend the victim by
intervening on the victim behalf when they are getting bully. Students can defend
victims by sharing their emotional reactions, offering support and helping to shape
peaceful alternatives. Next, Children that have warm relationships with their parents
are less likely to become bullies or victims, compared to children that have neglectful
or abusive parents. In order to stop bullying, schools or communities could provide
training in parental skills to help facilitate communication about incidents of bullying
occurring in schools. it could help parents encourage their children to defend their
peers or protect themselves from bullies. After that, every school must have an anti-
bullying program. The program have to be aims to raise awareness about bullying in
school and other sectors. The program should includes school rules, and discipline
parent informational. When deciding on whether or not to implement anti-bullying
programs, schools should view their efforts to reduce bullying as promoting a positive
school environment for all students as focusing on wide-ranging benefits that could
help motivate schools that are concerned about limited time and resources.
Enforcement of certain law that focusing on the bullies. This could help the victim to
fight against his bullies. The law must not only for school but for other facilities also
where there is the possibility of bullying could happen. For cyberbullying, companies
running social media platforms have some authorities. To ensure the safety of its users,
some large social media sites offer resource pages dedicated to bullying, instructions
for blocking accounts of bullies and reporting mechanisms for users to report online
abuse. All of the peers, family, school and media platform must play their own role
respectively in order to stop bullying behaviors from occurring again. Furthermore,
Federal court can increase the punishment for anyone who is found guilty in bullying
case

As a conclusion, bullying can be stopped from becoming a more serious

issue other, there will be less bullying case. Teachers and parents play an important
part in children life so they are their biggest inspiration to the children. The school and
authorities should monitor the condition of their students to avoid students from
becoming bullies. All of this must be implemented in daily life so that whether it is a
kid, students or adolescent can grow without having to be afraid to be bullied.
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