A 14-year-old boy is recovering from broken cheekbones, severe cuts and possible internal injuries after fighting with a classmate during a recess dodgeball game. Preston Hodge was reportedly left unconscious from the injuries and underwent surgery at a local hospital before being released yesterday. Police are investigating the fight while school officials and the local ... read more »

  A Cherry Hill, New Jersey father suspected something wasn’t quite right at his autistic son’s school.  What he uncovered has started an Internet campaign to stop abusive teachers from bullying students. On Friday, Stuart Chaifetz posted a video on YouTube in which he said that he was shocked when he was told by school officials his ... read more »

According to a study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, children exposed to violence or bullying early in life may experience premature aging.  The study conclues that exposure to these stressful situations may alter DNA and produce cellular changes that is the equivelent of seven to ten years of premature aging. The Atlanta Journal reports that ... read more »

A research study from Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network has found that children with autism spectrum disorder are at a higher risk of becoming victims of bullying and that they may be more likely to act out in a way that leads to them being identified as bullies themselves. As many have witnessed in their ... read more »

Nathan Pemberton, 9, of Colorado Springs, Colorado has been pushed around by a bully for months. This week, he finally had enough. Nathan described the bully’s repeated attacks to CBS 11 in Colorado: “He was picking me up and he kept slamming me into the ground into concrete basketball place.” On Tuesday, the bully elbowed ... read more »

As the documentary “Bully” opens this weekend in theaters, parents across the country are wrestling over the question of whether a PG-13 film is inappropriate for their kids or whether the movie’s message overrides that fact. The film follows terrorized children, such as Alex Hopkins, a middle-schooler in Iowa who is called “Fish Face” and ... read more »

The case that brought the effects of cyber-bullying into the national spotlight ended in a guilty verdict for a former Rutgers student today. Dharun Ravi, who was accused of setting up a hidden webcam to spy on his college roommate Tyler Clementi, was found guilty of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation, a hate-crime charge ... read more »

Sometimes celebrities seem above the rigor of normal life.  However, every once in awhile, we get to see that they are just like  the rest  of us. Mad Men beauty Christina Hendricks has recently revealed that she was bullied in high school just like many other kids.  While in high school, Hendricks struggled with confidence in ... read more »

What has long been suspected has been given official credence. Experts at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law agreed that children who suffer bullying – whether at school or on the Internet – are more prone to long spells of depression and suicidal thoughts.  Dysthymia, or long-term depression (LTD), is characterized ... read more »

Peer pressure and school bullies are just two of the many issues that face our young children in school these days. Peer pressure alone can make our children do things they wouldn’t normally do. Couple that with the peer pressure coming from the biggest school bully, times five and you have the mix for a ... read more »

A new poll on internet behavior reports that over half of all teens and young adults claim to have been bullied or harassed online. In an Associated Press/MTV poll of 1,355 people between the ages of 14 and 24, 56 percent of respondents  said they had “experienced abuse” through digital media, up from 50 percent ... read more »

Pop star Lady Gaga, who has previously recounted her own torment of being bulled as a child, wants a new law enacted after hearing about a young teen’s suicide. Jamey Rodemeyer had posted a video to the “It Gets Better” project earlier this year, which was started by advice columnist Dan Savage to try and ... read more »

A teenager has found himself in hot water after bringing a fake Uzi machine gun to class in response to being bullied. The 15-year-old student at Flushing High School in New York City brandished the “weapon” in English class, and said he was going to “start shooting” the kids that had been bullying him, according ... read more »

A Staten Island middle schooler allegedly tried to take the head scarf off a Muslim girl during recess and has been subsequently charged with a hate crime. The boy, Osman Daramy, age 12,  is a 6th grader at Dreyfus Intermediate and has allegedly bullied and harassed his 13 year old classmate numerous times. The father ... read more »

A Connecticut teenager who is being bullied at school took to the popular video website YouTube to plead her case and ask for help. Alye Pollack, 13, remains silent in the video, using a series of cards to relay her heart wrenching message. “Hi, my name is Alye… I am bullied. Not a day has ... read more »