Bullying

Your daughter and her friends spend a lot of time gossiping about their classmates. Should you cut in? Parent advice (from our panel of staff contributors) Unless there's a whiff of vitriol or "mean girl" attitude, I would let it go. Harmless gossip is...

If you feel like you've already read quite a bit about the documentary "Bully," you have. But that still won't prepare you for the experience of seeing it. "Bully" has been in the news a lot lately because it received a restrictive R rating (for a...

A former midshipman who says she was raped twice while at the Naval Academy has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force officials to improve their response to sexual assaults at the service academies. In a complaint filed Friday, the woman, now 22, says...

AURORA, Colo. -- A 6-year-old is getting national attention for repeating lyrics of a pop song to a fellow classmate. D’Avonte Meadows, a first grader at Sable Elementary School, is accused of sexual harassment and was suspended for three days after...

  Following the death of yet another teenager who committed suicide due to bullying, Khloé Kardashian Odom is speaking out. "I am so sick of hearing stories in the news about teenagers and even CHILDREN taking their lives as a result of being bullied by...

Bullying-related suicides have increased in recent years and has drawn attention to the connection between the two. According to the CDC, "Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year. And for...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Thursday told jurors they cannot consider claims made by Burbank Police Officer Cindy Guillen that she faced harassment based on her ethnicity and gender. The ruling leaves jurors to consider only whether...

Each day a child plays three roles: the bully, the bullied and the bystander...and parents don't even realize it. We're focusing on prevention through the philosophy--it starts at home. By parents making their kids feel safe, giving them a voice and...

Closing arguments wrapped up Friday afternoon for a lawsuit filed by a female police officer, who claims she faced discrimination and harassment because of her pregnancy, and retaliation when she complained. On Thursday, a Los Angeles County Superior...

The mother of a teenage girl who committed suicide this week told Fox59 Thursday that her daughter was bullied at school. Tori Swoape, 15, was found dead in her Bloomington home Monday. Her mother, Lana Swoape, said she hung herself with a scarf. "I...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Phillip Maxwell wishes he had done something to stop it. Maxwell, a Michigan attorney, is still haunted by what he claims he witnessed on the campus of the state's elite Cranbrook School in 1965: a young Mitt Romney and a group of...

If never having done anything stupid or regrettable in high school were a requirement for holding public office, only angels and saints would qualify. Still, it's a bit ironic that Mitt Romney's supporters, some of whom recently were only too happy to...