Non-Fiction Reading Response

    Being bullied as a child can affect their adulthood. Bullying is a social issue, happening everywhere in this world. The article, "Childhood Bullying May Lead to Social, Health Issues in Adulthood" by Michelle Castillo, shows how childhood bullying may lead to more issues. I agree with the author that childhood bullying is harmful, although no bullying tolerance should be allowed.
    Researchers researched the people that were bullied from the ages of 9 to 16, to when they are the ages of 24 to 26. They compared that group to the people that weren't bullied in their childhood, to when they are adults. The group that were bullied were more likely to have issues than the other group. For example, the author stated that "[They] were twice as likely to have problems with maintaining employment and actively saving money when they grew up compared to those who weren't involved in bullying." Also, they were more likely to have financial problems when they're adults, and have problems with long friendship and good relationships with their parents. Also, teens bullied are more likely to have suicidal thoughts, mostly from their peers. Childhood bullying creates many other issues when they grow up.
    Bullying can happen anywhere, anytime, and mostly people don't realized that they are bullying someone. Most people underestimate how much bullying can do, and how much it can hurt someone. Since bullying is one of the major social issues, many bullied children are facing more issues when they are adults. Areas where bullying are happening frequently should help build up the citizen's self-esteem, their emotional pain, and their anger and aggression. That may decrease the amount of bullying, or further damage from bullying.
    Overall, this article is very convincing and has a lot of strong evidence to support the claim. Michelle Castillo was every clear on her point of view, and I also learned many new things that I didn't know about bullying. Before reading the article, I thought that bullying was a common social issue that leads to suicide and other few issues, but i never knew it could affect you when you're an adult.