Bullying News

Durham - A new study upturns what has long been conventional wisdom: that sibling bullying—the cruel, persistent one-sided torment from one sibling to another—is simply a rite of passage. In fact, the effects are the same as those bullied by a classmates.

Los Angeles - A source close to the Jackson family is telling the New York Post that the 15-year-old that attempted suicide Wednesday was severely bullied at school.

Parents who live in the town of Monona, Wisconsin will face fines if their kids are the subject of complaints about bullying on the schoolyard.

Ottawa - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter will be meeting to discuss changes to the Criminal Code as it relates to the Rehtaeh Parsons case.

Troy - Relatives of a Maine teenager who killed herself last week say that the girl was bullied in the months leading up to her death.

A teenager in Iowa has sued school officials, who he says failed to protect him from severe bullying, which included an attack that left him disabled.

Torrington - Dozens of students at a Connecticut high school have bullied a teen girl, one of two 13-year-olds who have accused at least two of the school's students of raping her.

When people talk about bullying, they think about kids in school, but it never really ends; it just changes. It's a cyclical issue that needs to end somewhere.

Durham - The childhood saying "sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt me," may have been wrong after all according to a new study that finds adults bullied as children carry the scars of their experience within them for decades.

A powerful poem by Canadian spoken word artist Shane Koyczan has attracted more than 1.4 million YouTube views since it was uploaded two days ago. To This Day is part of an online project where he asked animators to help illustrate his poem.