This research paper focuses on intergenerational bullying. Intergenerational bullying is how bullying is affected among different generations. Many readers might think that bullying has nothing to do with family, but in reality bullying has a lot to do with family. This paper specifically focuses more on how bullying occurs within a family, and how that bullying behavior is passed down to the children. Questions that will be addressed in the research paper will be how does a family’s history affect a child in the future? Since family is a huge factor there will be a lot of analysis on the different family types and parenting skills. A big question that is discussed in this research paper is why does intergenerational bullying exist among families.
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Such as behaviors between parents and children, how the family controls everyone, environmental components, and attention problems. These factors contribute to whether or not the child will become a bully in the future. So the big question is why does intergenerational bullying exist among families. The only reason why it exists is because the absence of management skills that parents provide. Parents do not set ground rules or boundaries with their children, and the children develop different behaviors that might link to bullying. A real life example that was mentioned in the Vision article was about a girl named Mary, and she goes on explaining how she was the bully in the family. Mary was the oldest in the family, so she abused that power of being the oldest. Mary would verbally abuse her younger siblings. Mary’s parents knew what she was doing, but they did not do anything about it. This type of learning style is permissive. The parents acknowledge what the child is doing but think that “kids will be kids”, so they don’t take any action. Another example that was mentioned in the article How a Bully is Made, Victoria the author gives the readers an example of a kid named Alex and how he became a bully at home, but here is the catch. It wasn’t a family problem that contributed to his bullying it was an environmental component. Alex was the oldest in the family, so again you have a child that is abusing that power. Alex was abusing his younger siblings verbally and physically. What influenced his to be a bully at home was from the community around
Such as behaviors between parents and children, how the family controls everyone, environmental components, and attention problems. These factors contribute to whether or not the child will become a bully in the future. So the big question is why does intergenerational bullying exist among families. The only reason why it exists is because the absence of management skills that parents provide. Parents do not set ground rules or boundaries with their children, and the children develop different behaviors that might link to bullying. A real life example that was mentioned in the Vision article was about a girl named Mary, and she goes on explaining how she was the bully in the family. Mary was the oldest in the family, so she abused that power of being the oldest. Mary would verbally abuse her younger siblings. Mary’s parents knew what she was doing, but they did not do anything about it. This type of learning style is permissive. The parents acknowledge what the child is doing but think that “kids will be kids”, so they don’t take any action. Another example that was mentioned in the article How a Bully is Made, Victoria the author gives the readers an example of a kid named Alex and how he became a bully at home, but here is the catch. It wasn’t a family problem that contributed to his bullying it was an environmental component. Alex was the oldest in the family, so again you have a child that is abusing that power. Alex was abusing his younger siblings verbally and physically. What influenced his to be a bully at home was from the community around