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Tamika Underwood 's Annotated

These Are some facts about Teenage voilence
 * 1 in 5 children are approached by an Internet predator.
 * Predators contact teenagers and children over the Internet through social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.
 * Predators also use the Internet for the production, manufacture, and distribution of child pornography, exposing youth to child pornography and encourage them to exchange pornography or worse entice children to meet for the purpose of having sex.
 * Most but not all victims are between the age of 12 and 15 years old.
 * Most victims do not set up privacy or security settings to block strangers and, in fact, willingly engage in conversations with strangers.
 * Most victims tend to be loners with few offline friends. They are often looking for love and affection online. Many children contacted by predators believe they are communicating with someone around their own age, and not with an adult.
 * Most victims are secretive about their Internet activities.
 * Most victims tend to have few activities outside of the Internet.
 * Most victims receive strange phone calls, gifts, and packages from predators who groom their victims.
 * Parents find photographs of strangers, pornographic images, or waits until other family members are asleep or out of the home before going online .  Bullying is an on-going pattern of harassment and abuse. It can be done directly by physical or verbal attacks or indirectly by exclusion, spreading rumors, etc.
 * Bullies seek power through aggression and direct their attacks at vulnerable victims. Bullies lose their popularity in high school and have a high likelihood of having a criminal record as adults.
 * 1 in 5 kids admit to being bullied or bullying. Every 7 minutes a child is bullied in the school setting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">While most teachers believe they always intervene in bullying, only 25% of students report teachers' help.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Those who are bullied have often learned to perpetuate the problem. While mostly unconscious, those who are bullied bring some of it on themselves. The proof is that often when you