Editing Cyberbullying (section)

=== European Union ===
In a study published in 2011, across 25 [[European Union|EU]] member states studied, an average 6% of children (9–16 years old) had been bullied and only 3% of them confessed to having been a bully.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hasebrink|first=U|date=2011|title=Patterns of risk and safety online. In-depth analyses from the EU Kids Online survey of 9- to 16-year-olds and their parents in 25 European countries|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU%20Kids%20II%20(2009-11)/EUKidsOnlineIIReports/D5%20Patterns%20of%20risk.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504140537/http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU%20Kids%20II%20(2009-11)/EUKidsOnlineIIReports/D5%20Patterns%20of%20risk.pdf|archive-date=May 4, 2012}}</ref> However, in an earlier publication by Hasenbrink et al. (2009), reporting on the results from a meta analysis from European Union countries, the authors estimated (via median results) that approximately 18% of European young people had been "bullied/harassed/stalked" via the internet and mobile phones.<ref name="Hasebrink">Hasebrink, U., Livingstone, S., Haddon, L. and Ólafsson, K.(2009) Comparing children's online opportunities and risks across Europe: Cross-national comparisons for EU Kids Online. LSE, London: EU Kids Online (Deliverable D3.2, 2nd edition), {{ISBN|978-0-85328-406-2}} [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/EUKidsOnline/Reports/D3.2, secondedition.pdf lse.ac.uk]</ref> Cyberharassment rates for young people across the EU member states ranged from 10% to 52%. <!-- (Commenting this sentence out because it doesn't make sense. If you can clarify, please do. Thanks.) The decreasing numbers can caused by developing increasingly specific methods, dividing the tasks into different variables.-->