Kids who are bullying victims are more than twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts and more than two and a half times as likely to attempt suicide as kids who aren’t. Suicide is the third-biggest killer of young people in the United States. Girls are at higher risk to attempt suicide. Boys die from suicide attempts at 4x the rate of girls. All of them suffer needlessly.
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