A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that bullies and those bullied experience violent episodes at home in many instances.

The CDC teamed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to look at data gathered across a state that has been thrust into the bullying spotlight, and a state that responded with one of the more strict anti-bullying laws nationwide. Both 15-year-old Phoebe Prince of South Hadley in 2010 and 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield in 2009 committed suicide after repeated episodes of being bullied. Last weekend, in rural Minnesota, two best friends followed though with a suicide pact, both victims of bullying at school.

The issue has become the rallying cry for parents and educators alike, with a number of different studies on the subject being published in the past year. The most recent, "Bullying Among Middle School and High School Students — Massachusetts, 2009," reports that 30 percent of high school and 40 percent of middle school students in Massachusetts admitted to being involved in or affected by bullying.

One possible link suggested by the CDC is violence in the home. According to the study, 13.6 of middle school victims and 19.4 percent of bullies reported being "physically hurt by family member in past 12 months." Of the high school students polled, 12.7 percent of victims and 13.6 percent of bullies reported the same.

The report also suggested links between alcohol and drug use and needing to talk to someone other than family members about their feelings or problems.