It was the same when I was a kid, if you wouldn't fight, your dad would kick your ass.Back in the day when I was a kid, you were considered a coward if you didn't stand and fight, and your Dad or brothers taught you how to fight. There was no anti-bully programs only life as the one that could defeat or be defeated..
Yeah except I'm betting most of these kind of kids don't have fathers in the first place.