Does bullying begin at home?

Does Bullying begin at home?

In an interview with BBC Essex for this week's Festival of Social Science, Aaron Balick from the University of Essex talks about about bullying and whether bullying begins at home. Listen back now http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... 1_10_2011/
(fast forward to 1:05:45).

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A lot of my siblings and cousins are up in their 40s and older and they have still been making insinuations about my so-called "mentality."
I have had mental breakdowns that they do not even have the sense to research.

One of my aunts and a cousin were calling me names and announcing the details of my case history to people who I have never even met.
This involves lying because I did not agree to have my private information distributed to people I don't even know. The people who they gossip with have a self-righteous tizzy-fit and want to start fights like they are back in junior high school.
I do NOT talk to these relatives about my private mental health issues and they gather information from people who spread gossip as if it served me right.
They think it's ludicrous when I tell them to mind their own business.

So bullying does start at home with people who you were supposed to be able to trust.
My relatives cared more about their right to know your private health information (which they like to distribute) than about their obligations which include minding their own business.