A quarter of parents polled by Symantec's Norton researchers in a new study on cyberbullying said their child had been involved in a cyberbullying incident, either as a victim, bully, or witness, the company said Thursday.
The Norton survey polled 1,068 U.S. parents with children between the ages of eight and 18, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. The poll was conducted online.
Among Norton's findings were that middle school students were most likely to be victims of cyberbullying and that girls were more likely to be involved in cyberbullying incidents than boys.
Of the 24 percent of respondents who said their child had been involved in a cyberbullying incident, 68 percent said their child had been the victim, while 17 percent said their child was the online bully, and 15 percent said their child witnessed such an incident.
Just 40 percent of parents who had children who witnessed cyberbullying said they'd spoken with their child about how to stop it from happening. Other results from the Norton Cyberbullying Study, as described by researchers:
- 30 percent of parents told their child to "not get involved" in order to avoid unnecessary "drama" or worse "retaliation."
- 50 percent of single parents whose child witnessed a cyberbullying incident told their child to "stay out of it" compared to 17 percent of married parents.
- Nearly half of all parents surveyed either didn't have online parenting software installed on their computer (43 percent) or didn't know if they did (6 percent).
- When asked how knowledgeable parents feel about their child's online activity, 18 percent of parents admitted they "sort of" know what their child does online, while 10 percent of parents said, "I ask, but never feel like he or she is telling me everything."
- Privacy is not a given: 40 percent of parents admitted to checking their kids' browser history to see what they've been searching for.
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