Perhaps you’ve seen the heartbreaking video of a disabled 9-year-old child, Quaden Bayles, crying and saying he wants to die because of the bullying he suffers at school. The footage went massively viral after the boy’s mother, Yarraka Bayles, filmed her son’s emotional trauma and aired it on Facebook Live. Within hours, millions of people had viewed the clip, many celebrities had reached out to offer their support, and, of course, a Go Fund Me campaign had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It’s not hard to see why this story resonates with so many people. As a father of four young kids, I simply cannot fathom hearing them wish for death or talk about harming themselves. It is devastating to think that any child should have to suffer in such a way. I join the millions in feeling great compassion for this child and anger at his bullies. But my anger includes — in fact is primarily directed at — one other person: his mother.
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