Bullying is Worse Among Teens

I"m actually on a time limit so I don"t have time to do research on the following statements so please excuse me. Feel free to continue this debate with someone else to get a better understanding. The more opinions you have the better :D It seems like I went off topic yet again, oh dear. Okay, since you gave me a legitimate question; now I can argue. It would depend on the statistics you"re looking at; it"s its comparing which age group is easily abused: teens or adults. Are you comparing two statistics together or is it just one statistic that is primarily based on teens and bullying? If you"ve compared two statistics (one for adults and the other being a child), then you would be able to get a better picture. For the sake of my argument, I"ll be using the word adolescents in replace of the term teens if you do not mind. More or less, the reason why teens are commonly bullied it"s commonly a phase that many adolescents (teens) go through. An identity crisis is what some people would call it. Bullying to adolescents is done to exert their frustration to others and teens who are victimized would have trouble trying to deal with it because of the fact that it"s somewhat unexpected of them. The mentality of the youth, especially those who are exposed to bullying at such a young age (I"d say about 13 years of age to about 15) would go undeniably go through a depressive state because they are not liked, they feel as though they"re alone, and nobody will ever associate with them. Which may also lead to several cases of suicide and homicide due because of their need to exert their frustration on how they"re life is going. Bullying torments adolescents to the point where they feel nothing is going to help them. Of course, there are resources to prevent self-harm or the growing homicidal mentality but adolescents are more or less, one sided rather and would not develop rational thinking on the consequences and the rewards. They develop it overtime however, but depending on the exposure to bullying it may drastically harm them to the point where they believe that all hope is lost and the only way to stop the tormenting is to do something drastic to shut out their horrors. Adults do experience some form of bullying but as you said, it"s called domestic abuse. I guess we can now consider this through a social perspective where adults are considered as civil beings that are well aware of the rewards and the consequences of every act they would make. Adults, (not to generalize here) are more capable than adolescents to make decisions that they believe are right. Though domestic abuse is just outright wrong, society believes that it"s just how the relationship is and shouldn"t interfere with whatever they"re going through. They"re adults therefore they should settle things like adults and society knows that they"ll come up with the best choices possible. Perhaps that"s the reason why domestic abuse is usually overlooked. I guess that domestic abuse is also occurs within the confines of the house which is private because no man will beat his woman in public but bullying is completely different, it"s more public which therefore can add to the answer to your question of why "bullying is more prevalent to teens compared to domestic abuse between adults? " Sorry if I"m going around in circle and lacked enough evidence to prove my point but I hope you get where I"m coming from with this. I"d be glad to actually give you several examples of Laurence Steinberg"s research called Adolescence 9th ed but I would have to go through my notes and that in itself is a pain in the arse. Thank you for raising this question, I"ll look more into this concept of bullying vs. domestic abuse after midterms are over.