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Bullying is something that effects everybody, especially the youth in our country. Bullying ultimately is linked to many outcomes that are negative. Bullying impacts children's mental health, and can lead to drastic measure such as suicide within youth. Bullying is something that must be a focal point in the youth and it has to be stressed as a no tolerance policy within schools, because of the negative effects it has on the youth and their development.

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Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. This behavior is repeated over and over again and bullying not only effects the person who is bullied, but effects the bully themselves longterm.
In order for something to be considered bullying by definition it must be aggressive and include the following things.
An imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power whether that is physical strength, access to embarrassing information that can be used to humiliate someone they bully, or popularity to control or harm someone else
It includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone both physically and verbally and neglecting somebody from a group on purpose.

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Verbal Bullying- Saying or writing mean things to hurt someone's feelings
Teasing
Name-calling
Inappropriate sexual comments
Taunting
Threatening to cause harm

Social Bullying- Sometimes referred to as relational bullying, this involves doing things to hurt somebody else's reputation or relationships with others
Leaving someone out on purpose
Telling other children to not be friends with someone
Spreading false rumors about someone
Purposely embarrassing someone in public

Physical Bullying- Involve's hurting someone's body or possessions
Hitting/kicking/pinching
Spitting on somebody
Tripping/pushing someone over
Taking or breaking someone's possessions
Making mean hand gestures

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Bullying occurs in children both in school and out of school. While most reported bullying happens in the school building, a vast amount of bullying occurs outside of the school walls, and goes undocumented. It happens in places like on the playground or the bus. It can also happen on the internet which is the most common form of bullying in modern day society. A lot of the bullying occurs online and goes under the radar as many kids who are bullied online do not report it.

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Kids who are bullied experience negative health issues, whether it is physical, social, emotional, academic or mental. Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience depression an anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in both sleep and eating problems also a lost of interest in activities they normally enjoy. These issues might be long lasting even into the child's adulthood.
Health complaints is another effect of bullying that the child who was bullied experiences. Another effect is a decreased academic achievement in both their GPA and standardized test scores, and their overall school participation. Children who are bullied are more likely to miss, skip, or drop out of school.

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Kids who bully others can also engage in violent and risky behaviors all the way into their adulthood. Kids who bully are more likely to:
Abuse alcohol and other drugs in adolescence and as adults
Get into fights, vandalize property, and drop out of school
Engage in sexual activity at a young age
Have criminal convictions and traffic citations as adults
Be abusive toward their romantic partners, spouses, or children as adults.

The bystanders of the bullying also are effected by it. Kids who witness bullying are more likely to:
Have increased use of tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs
Have increased mental health problems, including depression and anxiety
Miss or skip school

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Cyberbullying is the most common type of bullying in modern day society. It is the form of bullying that takes place over electronic devices such as phones and computers. Cyberbullying also can occur during online video games where you play in the same game as other people. It includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing someone's personal or private information about someone else causing for them to be embarrassed or humiliated. There are instance's where cyberbullying can cross the line and become unlawful or criminal behavior. Cyberbullying is the most persistent form of bullying because children have access to their phones 24/7 and this provides them no relief from cyberbullying.

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Media links suicide and bullying rather often however most youth who are bullied do not have thoughts about suicide, while this is not every case it is not as common as you think. Although kids who are bullied are definitely at risk for suicide other issues contribute way more such as depression, problems at home and trauma history. Bullying can make an unsupportive situation worse for children and can be a factor in suicide, but it is not the only factor.

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Kids who do not have a strong supporting cast at home tend to bully more likely than one's who have a strong supporting cast.
Peer Factors
Some youth bully:
to attain or maintain social power or to elevate their status among their peers
Show they fit in with a social group
To control the behavior of their peers
Family Factors
Come from families where there is bullying
May have parents who do not provide emotional support or communication
May come from a household where the adults are extremely leniant.