I honestly don't understand why so many bullied kids are committing suicide. When I was a child, bullying was as common as it is now, but suicide because of it was unheard of.
Is it because so many parents are raising their kids to be less strong, less able to cope with adversity? I wonder.
Maybe, but I also think it's just a lot more pervasive than it used to be because of technology. Normally, bullying occurred primarily in schools, and even then, physical proximity to the bully was required. If you could avoid being in the same place as the bully, you were fine.
But all of those kids are online -- friends, family, etc., which gives bullies a completely different avenue of attack that they never used to really have. I suppose the analogy would have been nasty phone calls, but those could have been hung up on, intercepted by parents, etc.. Being online essentially means those kids will get bombarded no matter where they are.
I know one "solution" would be for a kid simply to avoid being online at all. The problem is that all their friends are, their family is, etc., so avoiding being online really means deliberately isolating yourself even from friends.
It hasn't happened to my kids but I could see how pervasive and inescapable it would seem to them if it was.
