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Intermedia proudly offers the new title, Use Your Strength: Mobilizing Young Men to Prevent Sexual and Dating Violence. This film introduces Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR), an award-winning pioneer in youth development programs. In this film, MCSR presents a fresh approach to the problem of sexual violence and date rape. In contrast to traditional efforts, [...]
With February being Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we wanted to highlight this piece about Dating Violence by Laura Sessions Stepp on the sexreally.com website: Confronting Dating Violence, reminds us: The incidence of assaults on intimate partners is rarely taken as seriously as it should be. And despite various educational campaigns encouraging witnesses [...]
From the Teen Dating Violence Awareness Website: Teen Dating Violence Prevention Project February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month! Explore these pages to learn what you can do to celebrate. The Purpose of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month The repercussions of teen dating violence are impossible to ignore – the issue affects not [...]
Power and control takes many forms. Newsweek has an eye opening story about abusive males using emotional and physical to pressure their female partners to get pregnant. Overall, rates of reproductive coercion among family-planning-clinic patients are suprisingly high: about one in five women report their partner having attempted to coerce them into pregnancy. “What we’re [...]
From the CBS New Website, Katie Couric hosts a discussion about Teen Dating Violence: Watch CBS News Videos Online
We found news of this initiative on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website: Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan are meeting with teen leaders, their parents and program directors from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships initiative to discuss teen dating violence. Youth representing four [...]
From Science Daily, a new study indicates that educating teens about healthy relationships can reap positive results: A school-based program that integrates information about healthy relationships into the existing ninth-grade curriculum appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and increase condom use two and a half years later, according to a report in the August issue [...]
Liz Claiborne and Macy’s recently teamed up with the Family Violence Prevention Fund for a study about teen dating violence. One of the more interesting aspects of the study showed the link between our current economic recession and increase in teen dating violence. Also from the study: …29 percent of teens reported having been the [...]
From RH Reality Check, Kiersten Stewart, talks about abuse and its impact on young women’s reproductive health: Relationship abuse has many serious consequences and one of them can be harm to a woman’s reproductive health. Studies show that relationship or dating abuse can have reproductive health consequences, including unplanned pregnancy and exposure to sexually transmitted [...]
