New research suggests children who feel they don't spend enough time with their parents are likely to become bullies. This seems true if fathers work long hours but the same doesn't hold true for lack of time with mothers.
Mothers being primary caregivers spend more time with children while fathers will plan to spend time with children. Schools would help reduce bullying by urging fathers to spend more time with their children.
In the '60s and '70s, as women were starting to enter the labor force we worried, “would our children become delinquent? "Now, 30, 40 years later, we revisit the question and find it's not true."
A study from Brunel University in London found that adolescents who witness bullying are more likely than victims to develop anxiety, depression and physical symptoms of stress, and that they're more likely to use drugs or alcohol. Researchers concluded bystanders were traumatized by repeated exposure to bullying behavior and to their inability to help their peers.
Binghamton University in New York found that girls who were bullied had sex earlier and with more partners than those who weren't, but the effect was reversed with boys. It may be that bullied boys have lower social status, which made them less attractive to the opposite sex, the authors speculated, while bullied girls may suffer low self-esteem that left them more vulnerable to sexual pressure.
A UCLA study suggested that parents wield more clout than they might think, exercising as much influence over their children's social behavior as peers and provides an "untapped resource" in the fight against bullying.
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