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Some Bullies Just Want to Be Loved
Bullies have been an accepted, if unpleasant, part of childhood for generations. Although anti-bullying laws are increasingly common, and schools often have programs for dealing with bullies, this...
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For Teens Online, Hundreds of ‘Friends’ and No One to Turn To
Amanda Todd is an Internet sensation. Last week, her name was a trending Twitter #hashtag. A Facebook page honoring her has 590,000 “Likes.” A YouTube message she recorded to the world— “I’m not doing...
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The Shocking Level of Dating Violence Among Teens and Adolescents
For all the recent hand-wringing over “cyberbullying” in schools, an older and more insidious type of bullying unfortunately remains, according to a new study: teen dating abuse. About one third of...
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Should We Encourage Our Kids to Spend Their Teenage Years as Cyber Deviants?
Using a label that sounds much more menacing than it should, researchers at the University of Cincinnati presented a study on the prevalence of “CyberDeviance” among teenagers late last week. In a...
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Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet
I was 12 hours into a summer vacation in Palm Springs when my phone hummed to life, buzzing twice next to me in the dark of my hotel room. I squinted at the screen. It was 5:30 a.m., and a friend was...
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