Bullying At Kids with Homosexual Parents

Bullying At Kids with Homosexual Parents

Introduction

In 1996, Barry Loukaitis , a young 14 year old kid enrolled in his honor program killed his two classmates and one teacher because of bullying. This happened in his school in Moses, Lake, Wash. When the police investigated Barry he said that these two classmates along with the teacher bullied him and uses to call him faggot. Barry showed his aggression in the form of murder because he was a born out of homosexual parents. After the arrestment and conviction to the crime he was sentenced life time prison without any emancipate.

Barry Loukaitis is not the only kid who faced the bullies. It has been investigated that 3 out of 10 American children are involved in bullying or either are the victim of one. According to an estimate approximately 160,000 children in America skip school for the fear of being harassed or bullied. In the past few years, bullying and violence in school and childhood have been reported increasingly. Sustaining a safe and good atmosphere in primary and secondary schools of America is becoming a very serious issue. This is very dreadful evidence that need to be addressed very fatally (Undheim, 2011).

Like Barry there are many children how are facing the bullying in the schools, colleges and workplace due to the homosexuality of their parents. Thsir homosexuality is a joke for other people around him and that is the reason of which he is being bullied.

Bullying - An emerging issue

Bullying has a very dynamic nature. There is a possibility that example of bullying by one person is an idea of entertainment for another. But in general bullying is described when the there is imbalance of power which is used for physical and physiological distress. Any physical assault, active exclusion from a social group and continuous teasing by the colleagues and friends is often called bullying. Bullying turn out to build an aggressive behavior on the victim if this action is repeated again and again. The main reason behind this behavior in an imbalance of power and strength. The imbalance of power can be categorized either physically, verbally, emotionally or socially (Sandra, Murray, Hewitt and Maniss,2011).

Bullying Due to Homosexual Parents

In the recent years significant changes in the world have enabled more homosexual people to have families. For a child what makes his family differ from the families of his friends and families is the presence or absence of his parents. Some children have both mom and dad , some unfortunate one's only have one parent surviving either their mom or dad, in some causes both are not alive and the child life with his grandparents . But the homosexuality has led to the existence of two moms or two dads for some children.

Children of such parents are confronting serious problem. These children are subjected to bullies because of their parents in the schools, colleges, social circles, neighbors and even sometimes by their own ...