U.S. News & World Report (12/21, Levine) reported, “Bullying…harms children who witness it,” researchers found after examining “data from nearly 4,000 Quebec high school students.” The findings were published in the December issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Gabrielle Shapiro, MD, “professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City,” who also chairs “the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families,” said that when people who witness bullying “are feeling empathy for a victim but don’t speak up, they can feel sad and anxious and bad themselves. They are struggling with moral issues of right and wrong.” And, “according to the website StopBullying.gov, managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, more than a quarter of U.S. students in grades six to 12 say they have been bullied at school, and” almost “71 percent of young people say they have witnessed bullying at school.”
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— “Why Bullying Harms More Than Just the Victim, “David Levine, U.S. News & World Report, December 21, 2018.