By Girls, For Girls - A Project by and for Teen Girls

Get your FACTS STRAIGHT, please!

Here is a list of rather disturbing and shocking facts about dating violence. Take a couple of minutes to mull them over. You may find yourself believing that dating violence is a more pressing problem than you'd originally realized.

1 in 10 teenagers will experience some form of physical violence in their dating relationships.

95% of all people who are victims in an abusive relationship are women.

Men commit 95% of the dating violence in today's society.

1 in 3 teens experience peer, family or dating violence.

1 in 3 females and 1 in 5 males have been sexually abused by the time they're 18 years old.

1 in 8 high school students experience physical abuse in dating relationships.

Teens are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than people who are age 20 or older.

40% of female homicide victims were killed by their husbands or boyfriends, and 20% of female homicide victims are between 15 and 24 years of age.

On any given day in the United States of America:

480 women and children are raped.
9,600 women will be assaulted and beaten by their male partner.
6 teens will die as a result of violence.

Bibliography

Rosen, Ruth C. Coping with Dating Violence.
The Rosen Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1989.

"Recognize the Early Warning Signs of a Violent Teen Relationship. 2000.
Viewed 7/13/01. http://www.massmed.org/pages/violent_teen_relationships.asp
"Dating Violence #6".
Viewed 7/13/01.
http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu/vinfo6.htm

Additional information about facts and statistics provided by counselors from the YWCA of Western Massachusetts. Sources unknown.

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