Dating violence
Dating violence means that one person purposely hurts or scares another one whom they are dating. Dating violence can happen in relationship between people of all races, cultures, incomes, and education levels, whether you are young or old, heterosexual or straight. It may happen on a first date or being already deeply in love.
Dating violence includes the following forms of abuse and behaviors:
Physical abuse includes actions like: hitting, shoving, punching, kicking, biting, slapping, strangling, hair pulling or throwing things.
Verbal or emotional abuse includes the following behaviors: jealousy, yelling, calling your names, bullying, embarrassing, saying you deserve the abuse, threatening to hurt you or someone in your family, himself or herself if you don’t do what they want you to do. It also includes controlling behaviors, which are not letting your partner to meet and hang out with friends, calling or texting to find out where you are, what are you doing and whom you are with. Also being with you all the time and telling you what to wear and how to look.
Sexual abuse like forcing you to do something sexual (such as unwanted kissing, touching or having sex or other thing), doing something sexual when you cannot agree to it (like when you are very drunk), and also not letting you use birth control.
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The highest rate of relationship violence among teenage girls is experienced in the United States. Due to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s survey 23% of females and 14% of males who ever experienced any kind of intimate partner violence, first experienced some form of it between 11 and 17 years of age (CDC, 2011). In fact, 1 in 10 of female in high school say they have been physically abused by a dating partner in the past year. Many of them did not report because they were afraid to tell friends and
Dating violence means that one person purposely hurts or scares another one whom they are dating. Dating violence can happen in relationship between people of all races, cultures, incomes, and education levels, whether you are young or old, heterosexual or straight. It may happen on a first date or being already deeply in love.
Dating violence includes the following forms of abuse and behaviors:
Physical abuse includes actions like: hitting, shoving, punching, kicking, biting, slapping, strangling, hair pulling or throwing things.
Verbal or emotional abuse includes the following behaviors: jealousy, yelling, calling your names, bullying, embarrassing, saying you deserve the abuse, threatening to hurt you or someone in your family, himself or herself if you don’t do what they want you to do. It also includes controlling behaviors, which are not letting your partner to meet and hang out with friends, calling or texting to find out where you are, what are you doing and whom you are with. Also being with you all the time and telling you what to wear and how to look.
Sexual abuse like forcing you to do something sexual (such as unwanted kissing, touching or having sex or other thing), doing something sexual when you cannot agree to it (like when you are very drunk), and also not letting you use birth control.
Dating violence often starts …show more content…
The highest rate of relationship violence among teenage girls is experienced in the United States. Due to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s survey 23% of females and 14% of males who ever experienced any kind of intimate partner violence, first experienced some form of it between 11 and 17 years of age (CDC, 2011). In fact, 1 in 10 of female in high school say they have been physically abused by a dating partner in the past year. Many of them did not report because they were afraid to tell friends and