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take a look at this. 34% of teenagers we surveyed say most peers take no steps to stop a fight. 23% say they find an adult, 19% say they try to stop it. but another 19% say they would encourage a fight to continue. back with me now, dr. phil mcgraw and rosalind wiseman, let s also bring in kevin jennings, assistant deputy secretary of education, and dr. susan limber, advisers to the cartoon network s stop bullying, speak up initiative. and stewart snyder, president of the cartoon network is here as well. what is this bystander effect? it s interesting. my colleagues and i conducted a survey with more than 500,000 third through twelfth graders. the vast majority of students say they feel badly for bullied students. they don t like it. unfortunately that sympathy doesn t translate into action. we found fewer than 50% said they would try to help a bullied student, even though many felt
child because he or she took their own life because other kids made it hell. it doesn t have to happen. what we ve learned, though, is that it does happen in part because of what parents simply don t know and what some kids just can t bring themselves to share. we just did a special survey, a polling people, interviewing hundreds of kids and adults. 37% of kids that we asked, more than one in three, say they ve been bullied. but take a look at this. 65% of parents we asked say bullying is either a minor problem or no problem at all. so there s a dangerous disconnect here, and kids are hurting because of it. take a look. i came out of the closet as gay in eighth grade. a kid had a knife on school premises and said, i m going to kill him. i want that faggot dead. i ve been verbally abused because of my religion. i m a muslim girl. i didn t even see him coming. he just came out of nowhere and hit me. reporter: bullying, not only at school, it follows kids home, online,