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Dating violence — do you know the signs?
I just interviewed a presenter for Healthy Visions — an organization that teaches healthy relationship decisions in classrooms in the area. They had been presenting this three-day sex education program, when students started asking questions about dating relationships via Facebook and Myspace. David Ashley told me one girl thought it was normal for her boyfriend to text her 30 times a day. She thought he loved her more because he was checking on every move she made, what she wore, who she talked to, etc.
Teens and parents need to be aware of the mental and physical abuse that seems to be statistically quite prevalent in relationships. Here are a few Web sites with information as well as some stats I pulled off one site.
Dating Violence: http://www.opdv.state.ny.us/publicawareness/teendat_viol/index.html
http://www.acadv.org/dating.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/resolve/violenceprevention/English/reviewprog/youthdintro.htm
In a survey of more than 4,000 ninth- through 12th-graders, approximately one in five females reported physical and/or sexual abuse by a dating partner.
36.4% of teenage girls and 37.1% of boys reported receiving some form of physical aggression from dating partners at least once. Girls reported that their boyfriends initiated the violence 70% of the time while boys only reported that their girlfriends were the initiators 27% of the time.(2)
Approximately 43% of teen dating violence victims reported that the dating abuse they experienced occurred in a school building or on school grounds.
40% of teenage girls know of someone who has been beaten by a boyfriend.
30% of all murdered teenage girls are killed by a current or former boyfriend.
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