This is a good starting point to detect how bullies came to be. During the tender age, a child is very vulnerable; especially to actions committed or words uttered by people they trust. When a child is hurt physically or emotionally, they carry these burdens until they grow up. Whether the abuse is intentional or unintentional, if there is no one to guide the victim on how to let those feelings out, they might lash out one day to become …show more content…
There are studies that show that most bullies are bullied, too. The Institute of Education in London conducted a study from 6,500 children from age’s eight-to-eleven years olds. Their findings show that 5% of the whole are bullies and 4.5% out of that percentage were bullied themselves (Bloom, 2008). These figures can be interpreted as a defense mechanism for the ones who are bullied, thus they act out to become bullies. Bullies are misunderstood, they are people who do not know how to let out their frustrations; but because they do not have a channel for this, they use other people. Their behavior of bullying can be seen as a coping mechanism, an act of anger that the people around them should guide (Lankard,