“People’s response to conflict is determined by what they stand to gain.”
I am writing this piece today in response to a segment on Good Morning America I watched earlier this week about the connection between schoolyard bullying and domestic violence. As a White Ribbon advocate I was deeply interested in the article and found myself staying awake late at night, wondering how the establishment of this connection could help us combat domestic violence.
A study conducted by the journal Paediatrics surveyed men between the ages of 18 and 35 and found that those who remember being frequent bullies as children were four times more likely to abuse their partners than those who had never experienced bullying. Bullies have been found to be at a higher …show more content…
Bullying is not programmed into a child, they need to experience it somewhere first. Children growing up in families were domestic violence or abusive behaviour is evident among the parents have a much higher chance of becoming bullies at school. They learn the types of behaviour that they witness at home and bring them out on the playground at school. No one has told them that it is not appropriate behaviour so how are they to know? When this behaviour is first discovered, this is when action needs to be taken. If a child is taught as soon as the behaviour arises that it is not acceptable, they will be less likely to engage in it on other occasions.
As people in the community, we share the responsibility of doing something to help combat domestic violence. As a progressive society, this abusive behaviour is only pushing us back in time. We are gaining nothing by having women being abused by their partners, too afraid to say anything to anyone. The only way for us to stop this behaviour, is to identify it when they are children. Changing the behaviour of a child who is found to be bullying other children is the best way to prevent the behaviour from becoming ingrained in them when they become
I am writing this piece today in response to a segment on Good Morning America I watched earlier this week about the connection between schoolyard bullying and domestic violence. As a White Ribbon advocate I was deeply interested in the article and found myself staying awake late at night, wondering how the establishment of this connection could help us combat domestic violence.
A study conducted by the journal Paediatrics surveyed men between the ages of 18 and 35 and found that those who remember being frequent bullies as children were four times more likely to abuse their partners than those who had never experienced bullying. Bullies have been found to be at a higher …show more content…
Bullying is not programmed into a child, they need to experience it somewhere first. Children growing up in families were domestic violence or abusive behaviour is evident among the parents have a much higher chance of becoming bullies at school. They learn the types of behaviour that they witness at home and bring them out on the playground at school. No one has told them that it is not appropriate behaviour so how are they to know? When this behaviour is first discovered, this is when action needs to be taken. If a child is taught as soon as the behaviour arises that it is not acceptable, they will be less likely to engage in it on other occasions.
As people in the community, we share the responsibility of doing something to help combat domestic violence. As a progressive society, this abusive behaviour is only pushing us back in time. We are gaining nothing by having women being abused by their partners, too afraid to say anything to anyone. The only way for us to stop this behaviour, is to identify it when they are children. Changing the behaviour of a child who is found to be bullying other children is the best way to prevent the behaviour from becoming ingrained in them when they become