"Bullying Survey: Most Teens Have Hit Someone Out Of An

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http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/parent ... 6_ST_N.htm

I find this to be completely unacceptable.

As a short term solution, I imagine it would be very effective. A bully will not go after someone that broke their nose on the first pass. That said, it does nothing to alleviate the psychological/emotional cause of bullying, nor does it help with children's health.

How are they defining bullying here? Hitting someone once out of anger isn't bullying.

Two unrelated subjects? Unless the hitting is done in retaliation FOR bullying.

I apologize but could you be a bit more specific about WHAT in that article is totally unacceptable to you? I am confused because there is so much statistics! It doesn't surprise me in this day and age that so many teens are bullying/being bullied. It's 'cool' and 'normal' to bully or to react with violence (that's not my opinion by the way). You see it in the media ALL the time.

I hit people to vent my anger as a toddler and as a child.

I remember back in school how when someone hit me and I hit them back, I would get suspended while the first kid didn't. If I told them why I hit the kid, I would always get the "Two wrongs don't make a right" routine.

That's if I hit back. Usually I got suspended after retailiating, but at least once I got disciplined for reporting getting bullied.

I've hit bullies out of anger. Oddly enough, getting the crap beaten out of them made them not want to bully me anymore. Shocking!

I never got in trouble for it, either, since I always stopped once a teacher intervened (and not a second before), and since I never did anything else I would get in trouble for. I never got in trouble for it with my parents either, since they both knew I never started the fights and that I gave whoever it was plenty of warning beforehand.

Well, what can another kid do to alleviate the cause? Not all that much, I'd imagine.