Canada may find pride in being top charted for countless feats, but no one brags about having the 9th greatest rate of bullying in tweens (GC, 2012). In fact, a third of students claim to have been bullied recently. This said, the numerous effects of bullying on its victims are well known, but there is another side to these statistics that is rarely discussed. If so many children endure this reality, there are necessarily a large number of children who bully them. Which leads to the question: what effect does bullying have on the perpetrator? There are several. In the long-term or otherwise, bullies encounter social, criminal and health issues as a result of their actions.
To begin, children having expressed bullying tendencies encounter various issues in their social lives as adults. In fact, in addition to having trouble maintaining long-term relationships, these ex-bullies find themselves predisposed to being abusive with their …show more content…
Their own decisions impact them greatly in innumerable negative ways. The choices made by children not only affect their future relationships, but those of their partners and children as well. Several behavioural traits they develop because of these same decisions influence their life by making them more inclined to partake in illegal activities. All these factors combined affect their health, such as being in an environment that pushes them to substance abuse, smoking addiction and obesity. Their choices weight down on them and cause various psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, suicidal thoughts and agoraphobia. Society moves to aid the victims of bullying, but it may be time to accept the fact that the tormentors are also victims of themselves. The fact that they are at fault should not disable them from getting the help the need to grow into well-rounded individuals not eternally penalized by the decisions of a
To begin, children having expressed bullying tendencies encounter various issues in their social lives as adults. In fact, in addition to having trouble maintaining long-term relationships, these ex-bullies find themselves predisposed to being abusive with their …show more content…
Their own decisions impact them greatly in innumerable negative ways. The choices made by children not only affect their future relationships, but those of their partners and children as well. Several behavioural traits they develop because of these same decisions influence their life by making them more inclined to partake in illegal activities. All these factors combined affect their health, such as being in an environment that pushes them to substance abuse, smoking addiction and obesity. Their choices weight down on them and cause various psychiatric disorders like depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorders, suicidal thoughts and agoraphobia. Society moves to aid the victims of bullying, but it may be time to accept the fact that the tormentors are also victims of themselves. The fact that they are at fault should not disable them from getting the help the need to grow into well-rounded individuals not eternally penalized by the decisions of a