Should Parents Play A Key Role In Protecting Their Children From Bullies?

Parents play a key role in protecting their children from bullies. Being passive on bullying is cannot be an option, with the suicide rate increasing. There was a case of a student named Ashley Berry, that was being cyberbullied and the parents went to the police and put her in another school (Landau, 2014). She’s a lot happier and does media interviews speaking out against cyberbullying, but her parents have passwords to all her social media sites and monitors her friends (Landau, 2014). Aggressive parenting worked in Ashley Berry’s case but some parents will not be that active in their kid’s social life and some kids would not appreciate the invasion of privacy. There are research plans in place to have cyber solutions for cyber problems. A research group from Massachusetts Institute of Technology is coming
Once school is over and people are free from social peer pressure, do the psychological effects go away? Victims of bullying suffer from psychological consequences through middle age and have higher levels of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts (Kaplan, 2014). Researchers have found that adults who were bullied as kids were socially isolated, less likely to be living with a spouse, and less likely to have friends or family to lean on when sick (Kaplan, 2014). The psychological effects of bullying can be permanent for some, where they find it hard to emotionally connect with another human being. Not only does the person suffer but the economy can suffer the consequences of bullying as well. Studies show that people who suffered through bullying spend fewer years in school than peers who have not been bullied (Kaplan, 2014). With less education, it can lead to jobs with less earnings or even unemployment. A study from JAMA Psychiatry looked at the psychological effects of bullying long-term, for the bullied, the one who did the bullying, and the