{"id":1429,"date":"2009-01-04T12:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2009-01-04T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:06:06","slug":"quick-stats-teen-dating-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/01\/04\/quick-stats-teen-dating-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Stats: Teen Dating Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:a9mAPUvcF3a2TM:http:\/\/www.aolcdn.com\/aolr\/teens-dating-bench-300a032707.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In case you missed it, an article in today&#8217;s NYTimes (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/04\/us\/04abuse.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">A Rise in Efforts to Spot Abuse in Youth Dating<\/a>&#8220;) highlights the increased prevalence of violence in teenage dating relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a quick and depressing glance at the stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to a survey by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed that <strong>dating violence had risen by more than 40 percent since 1999,<\/strong> when the department began asking students about the problem.<\/li>\n<li>Public health research indicates that t<strong>he rate of such abusive relationships has hovered around 10 percent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>According to a survey last year of children ages 11 to 14 by Liz Claiborne Inc., <strong>a quarter of the 1,000 respondents said they had been called names, harassed or ridiculed by their romantic partner by phone call or text message,<\/strong> often between midnight and 5 a.m., when their parents are sleeping.<\/li>\n<li>A study published last July in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found that more than <strong>one-third of the 920 students questioned were victims of emotional and physical abuse by romantic partners before they started college.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the C.D.C.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2007 <strong>survey of 15,000 adolescents, 10 percent reported physical abuse like being hit or slapped by a romantic partner<\/strong>. Nearly 8 percent of teenagers in the survey said they were forced to have sexual intercourse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The good news: <\/strong>&#8220;Last month, a group of Indianapolis organizations won a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help schools tackle the issue, part of $18 million in grants to 10 communities to help break patterns where children exposed to violence at home repeat it in their adult relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bad news: <\/strong> There are no definitive national studies on the prevalence of abuse in adolescent relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly there is a need.\u00c2\u00a0 (AHEM &#8211; calling researchers!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, an article in today&#8217;s NYTimes (&#8220;A Rise in Efforts to Spot Abuse in Youth Dating&#8220;) highlights the increased prevalence of violence in teenage dating relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a quick and depressing glance at the stats: According to a survey by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,133,100],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sexuality","tag-violence","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}