10 Shocking Facts and Statistics About How Bullying Can Be Affecting People All Around YOU

Some affects and statistics of bullying you probably don't know

1. Bullying doesn't only take place at school

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Bullying can take place in any place or context where humans interact with each other. Whether the age or location people can be bullied. It can occur in places like family, workplace, home, sport team, neighbourhood, prison literally everywhere where humans take place.

2. Girls are more likely to be bullied than boys.

A survey by the department of education within America concluded that girls have been subjected to deal with bullying more than boys by both

3. 1/10 students drop out due to bullying

Bullying doesn't only affect a person’s social situation but it permanently damages someone’s foreseeable future by pushing them to the point to dropping out, closing hundreds of opportunities all because of bullying

4. 3.2 million students are bullied every year world wide

Bullying is so common that it manages to affect 3.2 Million people, that’s 3.2 million people that are forced to be subjected to the terrible effects of bullying YEARLY

5. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day due to bullying globally

Bullying creates such a TOXIC environment for the student they see it better to skip out on school completely, just because some people decide to act like assholes and ruin a person’s education

6. 1 million children were cyber bullied on Facebook this past year

Even if you don’t choose to see or interact with the bully you can still be subjected to online bullying. The internet has turned into and has continued to be a place where bullies can reach their victims

7. 75% of school shootings are linked to bullying

Its not uncommon knowledge that school shootings and bullying are connected, but the fact that 75% are connected is crazy. It insane that people bully other people when there are statistics that show that its cause these violent, terrible things is a terrible fact within itself

8. Children as young as three can become victims of bullying, says Canadian research

Even children that don’t understand most things can be victims or even the offender of a situation involving bullying. The only way we can prevent bullying from happening in the future is to stop it from happening among age groups this.

9. There are actual 3 styles of bullying

The first; verbal, which involves any sort of aggressive, spoken taunts, insults, threats, hate speech and other piercing, damaging words. The 2nd; physical, which should be self-explanatory. And social, which manifests itself via rumours, purposeful exclusions and other words and actions meant to isolate and ostracize from further away.

10. 10% of young people that have attempted to commit suicide because of bullying

As well as causing people to hurt other people, bullying can cause people to hurt themselves, even driving them to the point of suicide just over some people deciding to act like an asshole towards a certain person

11. Four out of five LGBT teens feel like they have no support from teachers and administrators

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It’s no surprise that bullying usually targets minority’s, and on top of that most of them aren’t receiving support from people who most students are told to look up to for it. LGBT Students are already going through enough stress with being students and being LGBT the least that they could ask for is support.

12. Bullying is hard to detect.

Bullying may be something a person keeps to themselves, someone you know and talk to everyday may be bullied daily and show little to no signs of it, look out for people who may be a victim (practically everyone) of bullying in any form and check up on how they’re doing time to time.

13. Bullying is a disgusting thing

Now that you've learnt more of how much bullying affects people worldwide and the side affects it can have on a person, hopefully you can have a better understanding of what someone is going through when they are being bullied