Read the passage from "Bullying in Early Adolescence.” We cannot assume that bullying among young adolescents is a simple interaction between a bully and a victim. Instead, recent studies and media reports suggest that there are groups of students who support their peers and sometimes participate in teasing and harassing other students. It seems important for families, schools, and other community institutions to help children and young adolescents learn how to manage, and potentially change, the pressure to hurt their classmates in order to "fit in.”

What is the author’s purpose in choosing the problem-solution text structure in the passage?

a. to show the events that occur during bullying
b. to show how bullying is different from other issues
c. to emphasize how bullying can result in different situations
d. to emphasize that bullying is a serious issue and what actions can be taken