Bullying and Its Relation to Obesity and Overweight among School Age Children at Hilla City

Objectives of the study were: assess the possessions of victimization on child life and correlate obesity and overweight with the bullying behaviors of others in the school. A correlation study was started from 31^th of June 2017 to 10^th December 2017 in Al Hilla city schools, a purposive sample of (100) students were selected randomly from (12) schools with body Mass Index of more than normal. Most of the sample were females (78%), (42%) of the subjects are in (G5), (35%) were obese the highest percentage of them ordered the 1^st child in the family. Majority of the mothers working that represents (75%). differences between the bullying behaviors, according to attacks of belongings and other avoidance behaviors reported the uppermost mean of scores, while the bullied behavior in general showed low mean. This study revealed that was a weak noteworthy correlation amongst the age, Sex, body Mass Index and child order in the family with assessment of bullying behaviors they exposed to. This study showed that there was several victimization effects on students social, psychological health and even academic performance associated with the increased body weight as shown in a form of verbal, or even physical.