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Relationship Topics
When Your Child Is Bullied
Statistics on Bullying
A study by psychologist Dorothy Espelage revealed that 80 percent of students take part in bullying, and 15 percent of seventh and eighth graders say they bully someone regularly. In an older study, boys were found to be four times as likely as girls to be responsible for physical attacks and far more likely to be victims of attacks. In a study sponsored by the Kaiser Foundation, 74 percent of eight- to 11-year-olds, and 86 percent of teens, report being teased or bullied by their peers. One child in five is frightened in the classroom.
It is a major problem for boys on campuses today. It also plays a significant role in the bloody violence that continues to distress the nation. In the past four decades, there has been a 500 percent increase in the rates of homicide and suicide.
—Dr. James Dobson
Excerpted by permission from Bringing Up Boys (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001).
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