With the recent focus on violence in suburban schools, there has been increased curiosity about the sources of social ostracism among youth, painful facts of life about the healthiest and, we presume, happiest of our kids. The focus of this article is on teasing, an almost universal experience with implications far beyond the attention we generally give to it. In Norway, following two suicides determined to be related to teasing, an anti-teasing curriculum was introduced in the schools in 1992 w [...]
