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Effects of cyberbullying being debated more

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Do you monitor your kid's internet activities? Although online predators and inappropriate websites abound (as scary as that is), one area some parents are ill-informed about fall in the age-old area of bullying.

We're not talking beating up kids for lunch money, but ridiculing them over email, instant messaging or MySpace pages. It's an emerging problem known as cyberbullying and it's not going anywhere as kids shift more activities online.

Recent estimates put one in three U.S. kids as being victims of cyberbullying, which is not all than unexpected seeing as how so many kids are "plugged in" these days. The only problem is that this kind of bullying is silent and hard to detect.

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