| What happens to Bullies? |
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 The life-long outlook for bullies is not good. If bullies don't learn how to change their behavior, the pattern of bullying behavior often becomes a habit as the bully gets older.Bullies have average social popularity up to approximately age 14 or 15. In fact, some children even look up to bullies in some ways because they are powerful and do what they want to, or have to, to get their way with their peers. However, by late adolescence, the bully's popularity begins to wane. By senior high school, if a bully is still attending school, his or her peers group includes other bullies, or more seriously, he or she has developed or is developing gang alliances. By late high school, school-yard bullying is a rare occurrence, but what takes its place is more serious. By age 24, up to sixty percent of people who are identified as childhood bullies have at least one criminal conviction. A study spanning 35 years by psychologist E. Eron at the University of Michigan found that children who were named by their school mates, at age eight, as the bullies of the school were often bullies throughout their lives. In this longitudinal study of bullies, many of these children, as adults, required more support from government agencies (Psychology Today, Sept. 1995). For example, these children later had more court convictions, more alcoholism, more antisocial personality disorders and used more of the mental health services than the other children. Unless new behaviors are learned and adopted, bullies continue to bully throughout their lifetime. They bully their mates, their children, and possibly their underlings in their place of business. Bullying gets them what they want, and although some bullies learn to refine the art of bullying in their professional lives and use it in situations where there is a power imbalance, it creates less than harmonious relations in the workplace.
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DAMIEN ALANIZ
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some girl
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school work i am doing a school exposition on bullying and i needed to know aboout the long-term effects on bullies to give my presentation that final touch. This site really helped thanks  BTW: i think it's really interesting about what happens to the bullies once they reach a certain age. what goes around comes around i guess  thanks heaps bye xxx |
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dannysk8
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i hate being a bully  I hate being a bully cus i got grounded from it i've learned my lesson i hav to do a three page essay on bully proofing take it from me bullying sucks i've been grounded but not lik dis.    |
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austin
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I HATE YOU ALL :) I HATE BEING BULLEID. BECAUSE I AM A NERD. I HATE IT WHEN I GET BEAT UP. I HATE IT WHEN I GET SHOVE IN THE LOCKERS. AND GET THROWNED IN THE GARBAGE CAN AND EVERYTIME I GO HOME I SMELL LIKE POO. ALSO BECAUSE "NEVER IN MY LIFE I KISSED A GIRL AND I NEVER WENT OUT WITH A GIRL AND I AM 16 YEARS OLD...  |
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kaelin moore
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bulling bulling is a problem in the world right now and it is effecting chrildren globlely |
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chicken
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raaaaaaaaaaarggggg!!! well... all of you bullies need to get a life!! i hate bully's there stupid and just need to stop.  |
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kitty kens
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i hate bullies austin is a retard and i am bully if you think i'm stupid say it to my face. then we will see what happens next. you guys are nothing but a bunch of haters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Ash
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interesting :0 It's interesting what happens to people who get bullied later in life. There are different reasons people bully to begin with. Some of them may wisen up, some don't. I got bullied throughout grade school (kindergarten till senior year of high school and boy let me tell you it was horrible. What was even worse was the fact I went home to abusive parents every day, so I didn't know which was better (being beaten up by mother or being beaten up and having my money stolen by bullies.). An interesting think is during high school one of the bullies got pregnant in her sophomore year and dropped out of high school... I still got abusive parents now, but at least I don’t also have crazy jerks breathing down my neck… |
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