Yet most state anti-bullying laws don't protect overweight children, said Rebecca Puhl, deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut in Hartford and the lead author of the report, the first cross-national study investigating weight-based bullying, published in Pediatric Obesity.
A person might feel more secure when they are bullying someone or controlling others, or they might feel a sense of importance when they're getting a lot of attention—even negative attention.
They note that there are other potential culprits, such as the possibility that academic performance for some overweight students might decrease due to bullying.
Some defended Cat Dad: "I think there is too much bullying going on in their household.
A place where academic success wouldn't make me a target of teasing or bullying, but instead would be a badge of honor.
His wife hates him, his brother is embarrassed of him, and he still can't manage to stand up to the man who has been bullying him since high school.
Cyber bullying is alive and well.
This crew's dissatisfied; this crew don't vally bullying a marlin-spike; this crew has its rights like other crews, I'll make so free as that; and by your own rules, I take it we can talk together.
The discoveries serve as a new lens for exploring such teen behaviors as bullying and drug abuse.
Weren't they bullying the newcomer?
In Be Beautiful, Be You the 23-year-old college senior shares advice on being unique, how to make and keep good friends and how to deal with bullying and negativity.
But we should equally be far from complacent about the challenges that remain – and I am just as committed as ever to working with you to challenge attitudes and stamp-out homophobic bullying and hate crimes.
