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According to ABC News, nearly 30% of students are either victims of bullies or bullies themselves and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because they are scared of being bullied. [ 19 ] Cyberbullying
10.6% of surveyed children said they sometimes bullied other children (moderate bullying), 8.8% said they had bullied others once a week or more (frequent bullying), and 13% said they had engaged in moderate or frequent bullying of others. 6.3% had experienced bullying and also been a bully. [150]
Bullying has also been shown to cause maladjustment in young children, and targets of bullying who were also bullies themselves exhibit even greater social difficulties. [ 56 ] [ 75 ] A mental health report also found that bullying was linked to eating disorders, anxiety, body dysmorphia and other negative psychological effects. [ 76 ]
In her new parenting book How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting — From Tots to Teens, author Melinda Wenner Moyer cites a 2014 analysis of 80 ...
Kids who are bullied are more likely to be anxious and depressed, abuse substances and have poor physical health. They are likely to struggle more than other kids in both adolescence and adulthood .
The Huffington Post, [8] Salon, [9] Oregon Public Broadcasting, [10] GLAAD, [11] PQ Monthly, [12] PinkNews, [13] and many other media outlets reported on Bell's death. The media reported his suicide stemmed from being bullied for being gay, which Bell's father fully believed, stating, "He was hurting so bad. Just the bullying at school.
Now in many schools, there is a presumption that it’s the kids that are somehow criminals. And race is playing a role. Dennis Parker, American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit in Covington, Kentucky, last summer after a video of a school-based police officer shackling an 8-year-old boy with disabilities surfaced online.
These reports included blaming bullying, goth culture, video games, Marilyn Manson, [192] and targeting jocks and minorities. [193] Other rumors were spread in the local area but not largely disseminated by the media, such as the false claim spread by some students that the killers were bullied because they were homosexual.