Teenage Initiation Rites: Harmless Fun or Hazing?

Of all the excellent speakers I heard at a recent conference on hazing, sponsored by the Chelsea Health Department, this father’s words stay with me most: “I guarantee you-anyone who thinks hazing is just ‘kids being kids’ would think differently if this happened to their own son or daughter.” You may have heard about this incident in the news. The man’s teenage son was a victim of a humiliating act of hazing at football camp, followed by months of harassment at school. The boy has since left the school, but he and his family are still dealing with the aftermath, or as the father put it “living in a bad dream.”

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