It is easy, as adults, to consider that teenagers have it good while you go about paying the bills and sheltering them from real life.
But teenagers do have real lives and they do live with stresses. They have deadlines and pressures. They worry about money. And they get bullied,
sometimes at a level of cruelty and injustice adults can barely comprehend.
Cyber-bullying is easily one of the most debilitating and insidious stresses faced by youngsters, and I welcome new law reforms to recognise the damage it does.
As adults, we have adult mechanisms to counter bullying, which basically involve reporting it and expecting action. We are protected by employment policies, tribunals, lawyers and law. If our reputation is lowered, we can sue. We have rights.
So, for that matter, have teenagers. Schools have strategies and policies in place and will act on bullying.
