Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.11.2012
Bullying must not be seen as simply a "youth problem" but as resulting from larger societal issues. Institutional bullying and harassment do not exist within a vacuum but reflect and actually reproduce the messages and actions stemming from the social environment.
Posted 05.09.2012
Rachel Ehmke, a 13-year-old seventh grader in Mantorville, Minn., died April 29 after hanging herself at her home. The months leading up to the traged...
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN and DORIE TURNER | Posted 04.27.2012
ATLANTA — When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her ther...
Jon Siebels | Posted 04.26.2012
Bullying is a problem in our culture. It's going to be hard to create a law that demands that people be nice to each other. I believe that like all cultural changes, this one needs to start in our own homes.
Carrie Jacobs, Ph.D. | Posted 04.25.2012
The film offers our youth nothing but a painful look at what they already see and feel almost daily. It poignantly highlights to young people how invisible their lives can be to adults, and just how unsupportive and inattentive adults can be.
Pandora Boxx | Posted 04.25.2012
"Fag." "Homo." "Queer." Every day. That's what I heard as I walked through the halls. Sometimes that's all I felt I ever heard. I didn't even know what those words meant. They were just horrid little gnats that gnawed at my skin, pecking away my flesh, stripping me to the bone.
Chuck Gomez | Posted 04.18.2012
I was an 11-year-old Florida "Cubanito," and for almost five years I was bullied repeatedly. I was followed home from school. I was jeered and taunted. I was called a sissy and worse. I was pulled and pushed by bands of teens. Then one day I got the courage to stand my ground.
Lee Hirsch | Posted 04.13.2012
We have seen the national conversation evolve from a growing awareness of the bullying crisis, to collectively mourning the many lives this crisis has taken, to looking toward the future in hope in knowing we must find a way to prevent these tragedies in the future.
Posted 04.09.2012
10-year-old Gerry Orz is living proof of the mantra, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." He has been bullied in school for being "too tall, ga...
Michael Jascz | Posted 04.08.2012
How does a child reach the point that they become a bully? Could the things our caregivers say and do, while well-intentioned, set the stage for bullying behavior to later surface?
Noah Baron | Posted 04.02.2012
Tears welled up in my eyes, not only because of the sheer tragedy of Jacob's story, but because it is, sadly, all too common. LGBT teenagers take their lives on a regular basis, but the reasons are often misunderstood -- and I know, because I've been there.
Gary Nelson | Posted 05.28.2012
The pimply boy came toward me with his homemade blowtorch. Left to my own resources, I defended myself. I started singing exactly what came to my mind at that very moment: "Don't tell me just to live and sit and putter; life's candy, and the sun's a ball of butter..."
Tyler Moss | Posted 05.27.2012
This year 13 million kids in the United States will suffer some form of bullying. With the documentary Bully -- in limited release this Friday -- drawing national attention to the subject, it seems pertinent to reflect on my own limited experience.
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.08.2012
17-year-old Katy Butler knows what it feels like to be bullied. When she came out as a lesbian in middle school, the bullying got so bad that she ende...
Cynthia Germanotta | Posted 04.30.2012
Today is a special day for my daughter and me as we share something we've been working on for almost a year and have been talking about as mother and daughter for much longer.
Christine C. Quinn | Posted 04.18.2012
I am proud that the New York City Council has crated the Respect for All (RFA) program in our public schools. RFA creates safe spaces for students by giving them a forum to celebrate their identity and diversity regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 04.12.2012
JACKSON, Miss. — The parents of two boys who say the teens were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 02.08.2012
Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010 after his roommate at Rutgers University filmed him kissing another man. Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old girl who m...
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Posted 01.28.2012
Trying to talk seriously about bullying is hard. The word alone sounds cheesy. As part of Rookie’s continuing series on bullies, and how we are the...
Posted 01.23.2012
A Tennessee teen's parents claim that constant anti-gay bullying led their son to take his own life. As WSMV is reporting, parents and grandparent...
Posted 01.18.2012
Given that more and more youngsters are self-identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) at younger ages, a new report hopes to shed ...
David Groshoff | Posted 03.14.2012
I'm calling B.S. on the "It Gets Better" propaganda. As we unfortunately just learned, it didn't get better for EricJames Borges, who took his own life only a month after filming his video for the "It Gets Better" campaign.
Posted 01.05.2012
Less than one month after a local gay teen took his own life after allegedly being tormented at his high school, a proposed change in a Tennessee law ...
Melissa Carter | Posted 02.18.2012
Maybe because of the anti-bullying campaigns that have intensified recently, I noticed how members of the Peanuts gang treat Charlie Brown and was shocked by some of the things they say to him.
Nathan Manske | Posted 05.24.2012