TABLE 5.
Percentage and number of parents reporting each type of responses to child’s victimization experiences by family type.
Family type |
Full sample | ||
Response | Heterosexual | Same-sex | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Talk to the bully | 1 (2.27) | 7 (14.00) | 8 (8.51) |
Talk to the bully’s parents | 4 (9.09) | 6 (11.76) | 10 (10.53) |
Talk to their child | 39 (84.78) | 53 (98.15) | 92 (92.00) |
Talk to the child’s teacher | 28 (62.22) | 41 (77.36) | 69 (70.41) |
Talk to the school counselor | 11 (25) | 18 (35.29) | 29 (30.53) |
Talk to the school administrator | 13 (29.55) | 26 (52) | 39 (41.49) |
Ignore/do nothing | 2 (4.55) | 4 (8.33) | 6 (6.52) |
Parents could have reported more than one type of response or have been missing on any one response (12.39% reported none of the responses, 19.47% one response, 25.66% two responses, 23.89% three responses, 13.27% four responses, 3.54% five responses, and 1.77% of parents reported six responses). Percentages are percentages of non-missing on that response type.