10 Things You Didn’t Know About Teen Dating Violence by Mariza Spinola

Being in a relationship is a very important step, and teens never know when is the best age to start. Most of the time girls matured more faster than the boys. Girls start to worry about looking good and in how to impress their boy. But the study made by Amanda Lenhart show how teens being suffering abuse in relationship constantly, but almost never report it because they are scared.

1. According to a article “The Data On Teen Dating”, from article Bps starting  relationship early can cause a teen to became less successful in school, its interrupting their ability to develop their skills. This study which took place in Canada reveals that this interest began in an age of puberty and gradually evolves into casual interest.

2. According to the article “The Data On The Dating” from Bps Library article teens that suffer dating abuse are more likely to suffer a long time consequence such as becoming an alcoholic, disorders, thoughts of suicide, and violent behavior. The Canadian study also mention that this problem is happening more in our society, its aggravating.

3. According to the article “The Dark Side Of Teen Dating” violence in a relationship is increasing everyday, those that abuse their partner its because they want to feel that they have power over their partner. On this article we will learn a story of a girl who suffered abuse in a relationship for several years and ended in a tragedy.

4. “Abuse its not normal, it all depends on the victim to stop the abuse on the relationship. Its not okay to stay quiet and let people abuse you, your partner it’s not your owner. According to the article “Just a Normal Part of Growing Up?”, parents should help their kids that are been harassed, but taking in consideration that for the victims to get any type of help they have to tell their parents what is going on. The article also mention that violence is not part of growing up.

5. Females between the age of 12 of 16 are three times more likely than the rest of the population to suffer abuse by their partner. The article “ Dating Violence” describes how most of the people that suffer abuse in a relationship get so scared that they stay on that unhealthy relationship until it gets to a point that the victim have no control over what is going on. They end up doing anything the partner (aggressor) ask them to do. Here the author explains how the the story of Lynn Ann and Garry end up in a big tragedy.

6. Spending class time discussing about teens dating/violence is not a teacher’s job, its the parents job to educate their kids. It is necessary that at home parents sit down and talk with their kids about possible issue they might confront in a relationship. According to the article “School Teen Dating Violence Programs Are Unnecessary”, by Mac Donald, at school students should spend time learning grammar, not wasting time doing parents job.

7. According to the article “Sexting Can Be a Serious Problem For Dating Teens” teens that parents have control over them, control their text, give their kids phones with limited text and calls, and the amount of the time spended in front of a computer. Amanda Lenhart also added to the article that the concerns about sexting is increasing every day, the percentage is going up.

8. Breaking up with a partner is not easy, its hard and it takes time. Its hurts but that doesn’t mean you will die because of it, people should learn from it and do better on their next relationship. According to the article “The Do’s and Don’ts Of Breaking Up” by Anna, breaking up with your car insurance can be easier than with your partner, because for your car insurance you can just contract another professional, but with your partner you can’t do the same.

9. Teens who suffered abused resist any type of treatment , seek help because they are afraid to expose themself. According to the article “The Data on Teen Dating”, by Ann Lukit, entering in a relationship to early can leave scars on teens  which will disturb them later on in a real relationship. There are many problems that it might cause.

10. According to the article “7 Myths About Sexual Assault and Dating Violence” 77 percent of the teens that suffer a sexual abuse they go to a same school or live near each other. The article also revealed that nine of ten percent of the victims know their aggressor.

10 Things You Didin’t Know About Bullying by Jamal Mohamed

by: Jamal Mohamed

1. Bullying is when a person or group who tries to harm someone who is weaker or who they think is weaker. Sometimes it involves direct attacks such as hitting, name calling, and taunting. Sometimes it is indirect, such as spreading rumors or trying to make others hate someone. According to bullying statistics, 1 out of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying.

2. According to film, There’s No 3G In Heaven, published by Hogan Sherrow, explain when you get bullied you will commit suicide even though u feel like no one is helping you. For example, started late on a Saturday night in September, a 14-year old boy named Jamey Rodemeyer, who had been the target of bullying from fellow students at Williamsville North High School in Buffalo New York, took his life. Hours before he killed himself, Jamey left the last of his numerous messages online talking about the pain he had been dealing with for a long time.

3. The big problems about bullying is that when the kids are been bullied they don’t tell the parents, teacher, or anyone else before it’s too late. If kids tell the parents that they are been bullied in school or other place, I’m definitely sure the parents will do something about before it happen. Most US teenager committed suicide because they were been bullied in school, street, parks, movie theatres, and many other. If we don’t stop this bullying it will commit a lot of suicide especially in the US. The American Psychological Association reports that a 2001 study of 15,000 U.S. students in grades 6 through 10 found that 17% had been bullied during the school year.

4. Liz Jackson and Mary Ann Jolley, the authors of the documentary,There’s No 3G In Heaven, published by Liz Jackson and Mary Ann Jolley explained how a 15 years old girl commited suicide and not telling her parent what was going on in her life because every time she come home she is sad and nervous, and when her mother tries to find out what the problem seems to be she will be like nothing is wrong with me. she finally wrote a notes in her phone that say, life became hard for her, no one cares about her, I’m tired of every student bullying her in school, and it feels like I was not meant to be in this life. Then she killed herself.

5. Even though bullying became so popular in this generation there’s a way to stop this bullying. Teenagers nowadays think bullying is really fun to do, but isn’t fun, it causes a big problem, a big problem that you don’t see, all you see is making fun. According to the article, “Bullying, Teasing and High Dropout Rates,” written by Ellen Daniels how kid are teased in school, after they drop out from high school. Some may commit suicide, which is bad.

6. Most victims do not ask for help when they are bullied, out of fear and shame. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, many teachers underestimate the extent of bullying going on in their classrooms for this reason.

7.Bullying is never ok. Those who bully use power to hurt people. Power does not always mean bigger or stronger. Power can also mean popular or smart. Or, the kid doing the bullying may know a secret about the kid being bullied. Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.,research director, says the Institute plays a vital role in linking research with community awareness of bullying.

8.Bullies are smart. They know where teachers and other adults are most of the time. As a result, bullying frequently happens when adults aren’t around to witness it. For instance, bullying often takes place on the playground, in the bathroom, on the bus, in a busy hallway and in the locker room. According to A New York bus monitor who was relentlessly bullied by four middle school students has received more than $700,000 raised by a Canadian man.

9. Always listen to what your child says is happening and talk to them about it. Ask questions about what the problem is and let them know you are there to help. Make a plan with your child’s teachers or school administrators for dealing with the problem. According to Is it time to stop ‘Bullying’? by Tim Kingsbury, To give just one clue of scale, at a recent conference Gill Dix of ACAS said that the ACAS Helpline receives 74,000 calls annually about bullying and harassment.

10.Cyber bullying is defined as a young person tormenting, threatening, harassing, or embarrassing another young person using the Internet or other technologies, like cell phones. Over 80% of teens use a cell phone regularly, making it the most common medium for cyber bullying.

 

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About STDs by Jesus Jimenez

Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), diseases like HIV, Gonorrhea, HPV, Chlamydia can be transmitted by having sex or any sexual contact. They may also be transmitted from a mother to her child before or at birth. Sexual transmitted diseases usually affect many organs like the genitals, the reproductive tract, the urinary tract, the oral cavity, the anus, or the rectum. The big key to prevent these dangerous diseases is by using condom, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica .

According to the article The Health Site Published by Pavitra Sampath in November 29/2013, HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system and your immune system protects you from germs that cause infections and make you sick. This disease is the most known disease in the word and is one of the most dangerous diseases. And when when you are infected by HIV many times, the disease becomes stronger and more difficult for the treatment of the infection. If you thought that HIV is transmitted only by sexual contact, you are wrong. HIV is also transmitted by sharing with people that have the disease, and by infected blood or having contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person (semen, milk or fluids from the vagina). This is important to remember that the person can get infected when the fluid enters to the body of the other person through either an open sore in the mouth or the anus or through the vagina.

According to WebMD and Center for Diseases Control And Prevention Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that can infect both men and women. It can cause infections in the genitals, rectum, and throat. You can get gonorrhea by having anal, vaginal, or oral sex with someone who has gonorrhea. Gonorrhea can be cured with the right treatment.

According to the  Center for Diseases Control And Prevention Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a virus that infect humans causing warts, tumours and cancers the genital tract and of the uterine cervix in women. You can get HPV by having oral, vaginal, or anal sex with someone that is infected. It is most common to be infected during vaginal or anal sex. HPV can be transmitted when an infected person have no signs or symptoms. There is no cure for this disease.

Chlamydia is a STD bacterial infection that can be passed on during having sex vaginal, anal, or oral. This disease can do permanent damage to our body and it can leave women unable to have children later in life. And the good news of this disease is that it can be treated and cured with antibiotics.This disease is the most commonly reported STD in the U.S. According to the Center for Diseases Control And Prevention.

According to the What you need to know about Hepatitis C this disease is a disease  that damages the liver. A person with  hepatitis C can affect  their health and HIV treatment decisions. This disease is relate with HIV because the people affected by HIV can get this disease faster and can become very affected by a potent HIV.

According to the article Planned parenthood Syphilis is a diseases like the other STD that can be transmitted by having sex with a person that is infected with the virus. Symptoms of syphilis are chancre, painless genital sore that are more in common on the penis or in and around the vagina. Alson with this disease people can get more easily HIV infection. This disease can make damage in the skin and in other organs like, heart, blood vessels, liver, bones, and become a secondary syphilis. It’s important to use condom and controlling having sex with different partner to prevent this dangerous disease.

Another disease is Bacterial vaginosis is a possibly Sexsually Transmitted Disease, that is a vaginal infection  in women of reproductive ages. This disease affect the skin, mouth and some organs of the body. Bacterial Vaginosis doesn’t have symptoms sometimes in women. You can get this disease by having sex with  multiple sexual partners. According to the  Center for Diseases Control And Prevention.

According to the  Center for Diseases Control And Prevention Trichomoniasis is another STD and this disease can be transmitted mostly of the time to the women and usually to man. Diseases like this one don’t always cause symptoms, they can cause frequent, painful, or burning urination in men and women. Also with this disease the  premature birth and babies can come with low weight, because of the disease that affect the sex organs of the woman

According to the Center for Diseases Control And PreventionAnother disease is Genital Herpes that is a very contagious disease. You can get herpes by having oral, vaginal, or anal sex with someone that has this disease. This disease can causes many damage to your body and to your sexual organs. Also if a woman is pregnant and is infected the disease can pass from the mother to the child. A Lot of people do not know that they have this disease because sometimes this disease does not have symptoms, but sometimes the disease affect the skin or ingrown hair.

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Thirteen Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Young Mother by Elianny Rodriguez

Reported by Elianny Rodríguez

April 2, 2014

1- A woman is consider young mother while being pregnant and having a baby between the ages of 13 and 19, with an early introduction to the adulthood life. “Kids Having Kids” chapter one book inform, how youths between those ages become mothers based on the poverty, low parental education, or growing up with a single parent. Every year in the U.S the percentage of single youths parents increase and decrease, but it still consider a high percent of babies having babies.

2- Based on chapter one of Rebecca A. Maynard’s book, Kids Having Kids, about 1 million of teenegers in the U.S, close to 10 percent of the youths population, become pregnant at a very young ages, such as the age of 15 and 19 which is a rate two times higher as any other advanced country.

3-According to American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, in the website “Stresses Due to Pregnancy in Adolescent and the Cycle of Depression and stress in Young Family,”  young mothers tend to have postpartum depression and to abuse their newborn child. This problem develop with a negative impact on children’s emotions and behavior. Investigators have reported that the interaction between those factors such as mother’s stress, depression and child abuse is what brings insensitivity, depression, and insecurity to a child’s adolescence. Children being affected for their young mothers depression or stress when they became teenegers because of the demands of  love and affection in their young life. While a mother have postpartum depression they tend to reject  and neglect their child which is a lead to a cycle if they became inexpert young parents.

4-Furthermore, adolescence is the time of transition between childhood and adulthood. While being a young mother most of this time period has to be sacrifice because of the changes entering to a unknowable life. According to the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress adolescent pregnancy is considered as complex problem that affect most of the teen population, and their family system.

5- Based on the  website article written by American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress  during adolescence, individuals are developing their abstract  thinking skills that provided them the capability to manage differents complex situation, one of them is the sensitivity to their infants.Parenthood is the main source of stress while being a young mother because of  the inexperienced and responsibilities  young mothers has to take. Also having to consider in changing the inexpert immature life to a new adult experience.

6- American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress indicates the importance of parent response to their infants. The style of babies attachments to their caretakers determine if the child will be comfortable seeking comfort, secure to explore and communicate with others. If the child do not develop any attachment to the caretaker it means the child will develop social communications problems, detached with their environment and neglections to their own mothers.

7- When Children Having Children website article by the American Academy of Child and Adolescents Psychiatric had explain that babies born from young mothers are risk to develop long term problems. They probably would develop them different major of their life such as, school failure, poverty and physical or mental illness.

 8- Additionally, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric express their concerns of the lowest percentage of support teen mother receive, however they encourage parents to prevent teen pregnancy through open communications with their adolescents child, providing guidance about sexuality, contraception, sexual relationship, and responsibilities due to pregnancy.

9- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric had report, Babies born from young mothers tend to be abused and neglect from their own children because of the inexperienced they have while taking care of the youngest one. Teenage also tend to demonstrated their frustration through their childrens while being playing a role in a young adulthood life, and the constant child  attention. Adolescent should be required to special programs and better understanding of what being a young mother will require, also offer medical assistance, better education, understanding of substances abused, child behavior training. .

10-  According to American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric, if pregnancy occurs, families and teenegers deserve honest and sensitive counseling about options available for them, such as abortion and adoption. Teen mothers should have special support system including consultation  with child and adolescent psychiatric when is need. It is necessary to have support through pregnancy to consider decisions and options during this type of situations.

11-  Dropping off school is one of the main problems while being a teen mothers because they drop up school to have their babies and never return back. In this way, pregnant and young mothers lose opportunities to learn skills necessary for employment and self-survival as adult, The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric has researches.
 

12- According to the website written by Arne Duncan, U. S. Secretary of Education in 2011 had inform that in 2002 only 10% of teen mothers graduated high school on time, but in differences that 67% of them never graduated. However those young mothers students who received support from school based services tend to remain in school more than those who received no support.

13- At last, a rechear  done by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education in 2011, a supportive environment serve as inducements to teenage mom. In others studies done by researchers in the 1980s and 1990s identifies the importance of school programs focused on helping with the carrin of a child; these programs often means to drop out or continuing school.
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10 Things You Did Not Know About Bullying by Keila Gomes

1-According to the academic journal, “Bullying and Cyberbullying: History, Statistic, Law, Prevention and Analysis,”  by Richard Donegan, an undergraduate research in communication student from Elon university explains that the idea of bullying started since the beginning of the world. Since the desire to survive was among all living things, many individuals used to give their best to compete to the multiple species/individuals in a limited natural resources.These competition caused the individual to grow and learn a corrupt ways to became ahead of others in a social environment. But the author explains that the bullying was not noticed at this time.

2-According to the article “Old-school Sweetheart of Modern-Day Menace: The History Of The Word Bully,” by Nora Nunn, a research assistance that research and write support to several projects, she explains that in the 1500s when people use the word bully it meant “sweetheart” or “lover,” and several centuries later the word turns from a “fine fellow” to something violent or “bluster.” Then as the time went by the word bully start to change gradually until it turns into the modern meaning today. It very weird how one word can change from sweet meaning to an horrible one.

3-Today According to the article “Bullying,” from Encyclopedia Britannica, the author explain that Bullying is a physical, mental, and emotional abuse over someone which most of the time frighten and makes the victim feel bad about themselves. Also the author believes that Bullying affects most children and young age teenagers, and rare affect the adults. This major issue happen more in school,  where young teen call each others offensive names, rumors, lies, and excluding people from a certain group.

4-In the same article “Bullying” from Encyclopedia Britanic, the author points out that  bullying can affects the victims in a negative way. They might harm themselves, become depressed and sometimes physically ill.  He also says an important point that the bullies are also affected in a negative way, such as mental problem, higher risk to commit a crime, and not be able to create a healthy relationship. Many people think that the victim is the only one being affected, but it is not.

5-Even know bullying has its negative effects, it also has its positive effects. For example, the book Dear Bully, written by Megan Kelley  Hall and Carrie Jones, the author concludes that at very end of the 70 victim bullying stories all of them became successful. The bullying make them stronger and today most of them are writers, or other good professionals.

6-Besides of positive effect, it also has a negative effect. For instance, the Academic Journal “LGBTQ Students Need a Safe Alternative to Thrive and Stay in School” by Jorge salazar, the author reveals that one of most of the young teenagers affected are the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning). The bullying happens more in school, and it is affecting their education. Many LGBTQ are dropping out of high school because the bullying is making them feel bad about themselves, they feel unsafe, and they became very depressed. These effects is making many LGBTQ students not able to complete their course in a regular school. This effect also called many people attention that this dropping rate need to stop. Many started and had to take online classes, and created LGBTQ community center where people can complete their course to stop the population from dropping out.

7-According to the academic journal “Direct Bullying: criminal act mimicking what has been learned,” the author reveals that the other effect that brought the nation attention is when many teenagers started to kill themselves between the year 2007-2012 because they were being bullied.

8-In the same academic journal “Direct Bullying: criminal act mimicking what has been learned,” the author proves based on research that the child behavior is based on how the parents conduct their child. Bullies are most likely to be the people who used to be exposed by domestic violence. Many children who parents maltreat, they tend to feel that they are treat unfairly and the only solution  for them to solve the problem is to maltreat others. The author admit that the parents is the responsible for their bullies kid behavior because they learn it at home.

9-According to the video, “Cry For Help” the author alerts that the rate of teenagers committing suicide it is tripple than the past 60 years. Also the author says that most of teenagers does not kill themselves because they want to, but because they are not strong enough to be left out or injured it is to painful for them. They want help and cannot get it and they decide to leave the world. Another deep point that the video “cry for help” bring up is that many victim cannot get help because most of the time, they do seem okay, but inside they are not. Also they might feel nobody cannot help them in other words they do not trust themselves and people around.

10-According to the article “Should School Monitor Students’ Social Media Activity,” from a Magazine, by Rebecca Zissou, the author points out that one way of preventing bullying is to the school district start to monitor the student social media, and try to identify any bullying suspects to be able to protect the student that is in risk.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bullying by Eber Moreno

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1-According to the Government Stop Bullying Website bullying can threaten students physical and emotionally safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts and there is a lot of things that teachers can do to make school more safer and prevent bullying.

2-Encyclopedia Britannica said that a person is bullied when people are bothering others repeatedly over and over, so that can make them take a  negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and people can have a hard time to defend themselves. Being bullied can make people even kill themselves.

3-According to Encyclopedia Britannica, bullying in other continent like Europe is turning very popular. The school bullying began in the early 1970s because back then people faced a lot of different problems like segregation and racism. Bullying was one of them and it used to happened between white people and black people, in schools, workplace and in other places.

4-According to the Organization Stop Bullying Website they believe that over 3.2 million students are victim of bullying each year, approximately 160,000 teens students skip school because of bullying, 56 percent of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school, 1 in 7 students in K-12 is either a bully or victim of bullying. 1 out 10 students drop out of the school because of repeated bullying and physically bullying has increased in elementary school , peaks in middle school and declines in high school. Verbal abuse, on the other hand, remains constant.

5-The Government Stop Bullying Website said that bullying is being mean and disrespectful to another kid over and over again, and that includes teasing, talking about hurting someone, spreading rumors, leaving kids out on purpose, attacking someone by hitting them or yelling at them and bullying doesn’t happen only in person  but it can happen online or through text message.

6-According to the Government Stop bullying Website kids who are bullied can feel like they don’t make a part of this life, and alone. Kids who are bullied have a hard time to go somewhere popular and bullying can make them sad, lonely, and  have problems at school or in family and can make them bully other kids. Kids bully other kids for many reasons like they want to copy their friends, think bullying can make them earn the respect they deserve and think they are better than the kid they are bullying.

7-The Organization Stop Bullying Website describes the types of bullying which includes: Physical  hitting, kicking, punching and spitting or any other physical attack, damage to or taking someone else’s pertence may also constitute as physical bullying. Verbal- name calling, insulting, making racist, sexist, remarks or teasing and using sexually suggestive or abusive language. Indirect- spreading nasty story about someone, being made the subject of malicious rumors and sending abusive mail.

8-According to the Prevention at School from Stop Bullying Website, bullying happen on the road when the drive is cutting other off in a line or preventing someone from merging, chasing other motorists, driving at the high speed in the median of highway to terrify drivers in both lanes, rude gesture such as “the finger”, shouting verbal abuses and hitting other vehicles.

9-The Stop Bullying Website writes that bullying can happen in many different places or ways which includes, school bullying, workplace bullying, cyber-bullying, bullying of the disabled, bullying in the roads, and bullying in other areas like between neighbors.

10-According to the Government Stop Bullying Website there is way to prevent bullying by stop and think before you say or do something that could hurt someone. If you feel like you being mean to someone, find something to do like go watch tv or play video game, talk to an adult you trust, they can help you find ways to be nicer to others, keep in mind that everyone is different not better or worse just different, and if you think you bullied someone in the past, apologize everyone feels better.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bullying by Keven Teixeira

1. In the website “Kids Health” by Cyberbullying says that Bullying is being mean to another kid over and over again. Bullying can cause  teasing , make people lives miserable, and attacking or yelling at someone.

2. In the Film “Strain” by Lele Melo display how Bullying starts in middle school, elementary school and social media and which sometimes can cause children committed a suicide because its very hurtful. Childrens that are usually age from 10 to 14, usually get bullied more. Bullying can cause a lot tragedies which people can lose someone very important because of bullies.

3.The website Suicide Prevention Lifeline, suggest that  kids that are being bullied should contact this website to get help.  Losing your love ones is very depressed because they are very important to you, you don’t have to lose someone because of suicide. The website helps  kids who gets bullied everyday from committing  suicide. The Lifeline is committed to saving lives 24 hours every day.

4.According to the film “Stop Bullying” by DreamTv studios” show and tell us  About 30 percent of teens commit suicide every day because  of hard times in school or social media because they feel unacceptable to this world or they just feel too lonely making friends. Kids are dying everyday because they are being abused in school and that they feel confused because their parents never knows what’s going on in their lives.

5.On october 24, 2010 the Time Magazine John Cloud is suggests that  parents needs to  go against bullying. We need to join and become a society that cares about the cause of bullying.  However, we need to know that bullies who bully others regret that they made people lives full of sadness.

6.In the film “CyberBullying Virus” by Daniel Fraser demonstrates why bullies, bully others. Kids bully others because of a New Virus, a disease is causing kids who are bullying others to drop out school, gets into fights. They could have many problems with their parents or doing drugs. Sometimes they bully to get their anger out. Some bullies today regret that in past that they could go back in the past from  bullying kids because its heartbroken to see a human being depressed.

7.According to the website“Cyberbullying”  informs that kids that are target of  being bullied because of parents. Sometimes parents don’t know what’s happening to their kids in public. When your children says that they don’t want to go to schools is because they are having a problem in schools but parents never listens. Kids who are bullied have hard times standing up for themselves. They think that the bullies who bothers them are more powerful than them.

8.In the Website “Kids Health” informs how Kids who sees bullying happening next to them feels depressed or worried because they don’t know what to do. Sometimes they wanna help but they don’t want to get in any ones way because they don’t wanna get hurt for trying to be a hero. There are frightened that if they get in the situation that bully might bullying them  he/ she also.

9.According to a website  “ Kids Health”  informs children are accusing being cyberbullying. A cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass and target another person. Kids gets bullied by a lot of kids online , depends how many targets are being aimed to them.

10.According to the article “Kidshealth” families and parents lost lives every day in United states because of hard times they are having in their life time. Bullying has giving bullies a new platform and a weakness towards the victims that are being bullied. Kids today are bullying kids through technology. Its their new weapons. Kids use social medias to online name calling and make other kids unacceptable.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bullying by Gleny Minino

1. Encyclopedia Britannica explains that bullying is intentional damage to the person who is being attacked and it can be repeated many times. Bullying can be physical, verbal,emotional or one of the most used is by internet, which is called cyberbullying. According to Dan Olweus, a Norwegian researcher explains that people that get bullied are the ones that are usually intimidated and they  are not  able to defend themselves. A person who is exposed to bullying everyday will become part of their lives, and will lower their self-esteem.

2. Dan Olweus maintains his theory about bullying, now explaining more his point of view. He continues explaining that the person that is getting bullied wants to hurt their attacker but the fear don’t let them defend themselves.

3. Juana Junoven, a UCLA professor of psychologist, holds that in schools, teachers  can not ignore the low achievements in classes  while they are ignoring bullying, because they both are related. According to the article “Victims of Bullying Suffer Academically as Well, Psychologist Report” published in Science Daily by the University of California, Los Angeles in August 20, 2010; when children’s in school get bullied they present low grades and less participation in discussions in the class. Teachers only see the low grades but they don’t looking for the reason.

4.  According to Michelle New in the website Kids Health in January 2012, the saying “Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me” -a saying used to refer to bullying- are becoming irrelevant because bullying is everywhere and is evolving and it has emotional effects on the person who is being bullied.

5. Also Michelle New argues cyberbullying is not always straightforward, some  of this cases can happen by mistake, because technology is becoming more advanced and because we so many ways of comunicate and with all those ways mistakes could happen.

6.  According to Shelley Hymel in the article Bullying: An Age-Old Problem that Needs New Solutions published in “education.com” thanks to media paying more attention to bullying we have been able to become aware of the situation. We have found some solution, but since bullying can happen to anybody at anytime it has become more difficult to find a solution for it.

7. Girls Guide To End Bullying comments People who are bystander-the people who not offer help when someone is being bullied- are the one that are afraid of the bully hurting the so they ignore it or help the bully by being their assistant.

8. According to  Scholastic  in the article called “Bullying and Teasing: No Laughing  Matter” Teasing is one part of bullying that no one see because teasing is like joking, but that is the beginning of bullying.

9. According to Graeme Paton in the article “Poor Pupils at Risk of Bullying by the Rich Classmates” Social class plays a huge role in bullying because there is people who are in a good economic position that humiliate the ones that are not like them. This is one of the biggest problems that causes bullying.

10. According to James Alan Fox in the article Why Anti-Bullying programs fail.Protective  is the only solution that have been effective is when the victims defend themselves. Some bullies always pick the people that can defend themselves but when the victims does defend themselves the bully will stop.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Teen Pregnancy by Elisa Depina

1- In a “Ted Talk” given on March 2012, Leymah Gbowee a peace activist in Liberia, speaks on behalf of women and girls around the world. She say that all the African girl wish for a better life, wish for food for their children, wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop. In 2004 in Africa she met one girl who had been raped by the father everyday, got pregnant, and all she wanted was to go to school.

2- On March 3 2014, Wikipedia tells that Africa has the highest rate of teens pregnancy in the World. Especially in Sub-Saharan the women get married at an early age. some country teens get married early, like in Niger 87% of women surveyed were married and 53% had given birth to a child before the age of 18.

3- On August 16, 2013 the title of a” article” What Are The Causes Of Teenage Pregnancy? written by R.Y. Langham shows that approximately 750,000 of 15- to 19-year-olds become pregnant each year. Many teens get pregnant because they are afraid to talkto their parents about sex. Sometimes their parents are busy with others things and they don’t pay attention to their children’s education.

4- NBC News shows the challenge in Nate Howell’s life, a student who girlfriend got pregnant when he graduated from his high school. Nate hoped to go to college and be a football player, but when his girlfriend got pregnant he didn’t go to college. All his dreams did not come true because he needs to work and support his new family.

5- In 2014, “The National Conference Of State Legislatures” concludes that teens pregnancy affects the graduation rates. There were 65% or more teens who did not complete their degree. But only 40% of teens mother had finished high school and fewer than 2% had finished college by 30 years old.

6- Langham also had expressed that many time teens get a pressure to have a friend and fit in with their peers. Their friends will influence their decision to have a sex even though they don’t know what will be the consequence after they act. But the end results is a unplanned pregnancy. The Kaiser Family Foundation concludes that more than 29% teens tells that they feel pressure to have sex and 33% feels that they are not ready for a sexual relationship.

7- The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy shows that the U.S has the highest numbers of teens pregnancy rates in the western industrialized world. In 2008 the African American and Hispanic teen pregnancy rate was over two and a half times higher than the teen pregnancy rate among white teen girls of the same age group. Teens had fewer babies in 2010 than in any year since the mid-1940s. Also 8 out of 10 teen dads don’t marry the mother of their child.

8- Based on the fact sheet published by “Drake Law’s Middleton Center for Children’s Rights”, the flyer points out that women have a right to feel free and decide what is better for them. Also the center says that  if you decide to have a baby the center may provide you a group of people who will support you. But if you decide to have an abortion it will be confidential. The organization who perform abortions are not allowed to talk to your parents about your decision.

9- Another problem that Mayo Clinic reports is that teens drop out of school when they start to think about their physical changes and the economic problems that will happen when the baby is born. This will all affect teens emotions. Also they start to feel different because they don’t have enough experience to have a baby.

10- The America’s Adoption Agency reveals that all women who had choose to put their baby up for adoptions had a chance to continue with their career, education or even get married. For most women, knowing that their child is safe and happy is the biggest benefit for all mother.

 

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10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Body Image by Rosa Payano

1. Body image is the way you see your physical attractiveness working along with your self-esteem.  Self-esteem is how much you value yourself and how much you think your worthed, and they can both be affected by each other, Kids Health website explained that those issues are extremely important because feeling good about yourself define your mental health and your behavior. They also explained that a person begins to struggle from a low self-esteem and body image in puberty because is when the body start to have many physical changes. Also is the time when they fight for the acceptance of their friends. People with high self-esteem know themselves really well and they look for friends that accepted them for who they are and not what they want to be.

2. Barbie dolls are one of the problems of why young girls are having dysmorphic disorder, a chronic mental illness, that makes a person obsess with a part of the body that they don’t like. They put barbie as their role model. According to the article “The Negative Effects of Barbie on Young Girls an the Long Term Results “ by Stephanie Hoskins published in Divinecaroline website, In 2006 A psychology experiment was done in the U.K. in which a total of 162 girls, from ages 5 to 8, were exposed to images of Barbie dolls in which professors got to discover that those who were exposed to Barbie doll images had a lower self-esteem and a greater desire for a thinner body shape.

3. Is an average girl beautiful? The perfect barbie doll-body as we know it, is about to change. Elizabeth Plank, writer of  “A Very Different Type of Barbie Hits Shelves to Revolutionize How Girls Think About Their Body,” informs that Nickolay Lamm motivated with his idea of an average girl is gorgeous, have created a doll with the realistic proportion of a 19 year old average women, name Lammily. Lamn explained that in order to doll it, he look at CDC website and took the measurement of an average 19 years old american women and then the model was painted over and photoshopped to make it look like a doll. The doll promotes a healthy and realistic body, not like barbie’s who wants to create a fiction body.

4. “It is just as hard to be ken as it is to be barbie.” Why most of men does not talk about their body image? Does that makes them less macho? It is clear that Body image issues affect women, but it’s a myth that it does not affect men. In accordance with Daniel Armbruster, author of “Men and Boys Suffer from Body Image Issues,” In halloween, we see boy’s costumes as a fun costume to go out trick or treat, but under the surface what they all have in common is this perfect “man-body” with big muscle, an image that young boys see constantly and grow with. Experts believe that this exposure can lead boys to develop a big issue related to body image, just like girls. Some studies had estimated that a 43% of men are unsatisfied with some parts of their body.

5. It is shocking how more women at a younger age are and feel the urge of mutilating their body just trying to get the ideal barbie doll-body. Stephanie Hoskins also informs that in 2008 an estimated 750,000 cosmetic procedures, and 271,000 surgeries, were performed in people aged 20 to 29, And 81,900 surgical procedures were performed on children and young adults aged 13 to 19.

6. Aging women also have problems with their body image. In the article, “Body Image and the Aging Female,” published by the university of florida, Eboni J. Baugh, an assistant professor of University of Florida, informs how Most women of 65+ years are more possible to die of anorexia. Older women examined in today’s research report they still struggle with body dissatisfaction. In fact, women over the age of 65 report similar levels of body dissatisfaction as women under thirty.

7. According to survey called time spent in front of a mirror, Erin Gloria Ryan, author of Women Stress About How They Look More Than Anything Else, reported that women worry about their physique more than anything, more than money, health, relationship, etc. In the survey they found that a 75% of  women with children reported appearance anxiety- the urge that their appearance need to be improved somehow- versus a 65% of childless women.

8. It’s not a secret that bullying can happen to everybody, but Sherri Gordon, writer of the article:How Weight Teasing Affects Body Image, published in About.com Bullying, informs that obese or underweight kids are a higher risk of being bullied. When kids get bullied because of their weight with time they develop a negative body image and a lower self-esteem, which can bring many problem as eating disorders, depression, and even self-harming. Most people think  that a negative body image can be only cause by mean girls/ boys, but studies have shown that friends, families, teachers, coaches and even parents participate without noticing it. A person’s comment about the weight of someone can lower down a person’s self-esteem. Sometimes this comments might sound helpful but in reality it can make a person insecure and unsatisfied.  

9. Johanna DeBiase proud to have a big nose wrote the article 8 Reasons to Love your Big Nose, in which she explained how she used to hate her big nose, and all she could see on a mirror was her nose. When she was nine, she used to be tease a lot, and they use to called her names like “Pinocchio, honker, schnoz, horse, beak, snout, Gonzo, Ringo, or pelican.” It wasn’t until she got to college that she started to appreciate and loved her nose. The Students there did not only see her nose but her eyes, hair, intelligence, and most important her inner beauty. She realized that everything was on her head.

10. If you were one of the person who struggle with body image, wouldn’t you feel an hypocrite for telling others how beautiful they are and that they’re perfect as they are?  “A Feminist with Body Image Is: Not Mutually Exclusive Categories,” published in Abortion Gang website, which is own by a group of female activist who support abortion in which , tell and anonimo  story about a person who wasn’t conformable with her body. She says that she felt like an hypocrite for giving others advice and telling them how beautiful they are, meanwhile she hated herself. She has this fear of disappointing her parents, so she started a diet. When she reached high school, she desperate herself, and she started to puke in the toilet,  overdose on diet pills, and to eat food no more than 500 calories a day. Today she would’ve like to say that those days were and are gone but no, she said that there comes time when she just can’t eat a simple meal without having the urge to puke, she explained that she understand that she has a healthy and okay body, but healthy its not enough for her. She said that she just wants the day that when she looks on a mirror, all what she can say is how beautiful she look.

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