This document discusses dating violence and how to prevent it. It defines dating violence as a pattern of abusive behaviors used to exert power and control over a dating partner, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Dating violence occurs across all demographics and relationship types. Abusers have a sense of entitlement over their partners and choose to engage in abusive behaviors. While factors like alcohol and stress may accompany violence, they do not cause it. To prevent dating violence, education about healthy relationships should be provided to students, teaching communication skills, conflict resolution, and how to identify and avoid unhealthy relationships. Addressing underlying social issues like poverty and violence as a social norm is also key to prevention.
This document discusses dating violence and how to prevent it. It defines dating violence as a pattern of abusive behaviors used to exert power and control over a dating partner, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Dating violence occurs across all demographics and relationship types. Abusers have a sense of entitlement over their partners and choose to engage in abusive behaviors. While factors like alcohol and stress may accompany violence, they do not cause it. To prevent dating violence, education about healthy relationships should be provided to students, teaching communication skills, conflict resolution, and how to identify and avoid unhealthy relationships. Addressing underlying social issues like poverty and violence as a social norm is also key to prevention.
This document discusses dating violence and how to prevent it. It defines dating violence as a pattern of abusive behaviors used to exert power and control over a dating partner, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Dating violence occurs across all demographics and relationship types. Abusers have a sense of entitlement over their partners and choose to engage in abusive behaviors. While factors like alcohol and stress may accompany violence, they do not cause it. To prevent dating violence, education about healthy relationships should be provided to students, teaching communication skills, conflict resolution, and how to identify and avoid unhealthy relationships. Addressing underlying social issues like poverty and violence as a social norm is also key to prevention.
It is a pattern of abusive behaviors usually a series of abusive behaviors over a course of time used to exert power and control over a dating partner. Every relationship is different, but the things that unhealthy and abusive relationships have in common are issues of power and control. Violent words and actions are tools of an abusive partner uses to gain and maintain power and control over their partner. Dating violence occurs when one person purposely hurts or scares someone they are dating. It happens to people of all races, cultures, incomes, and education levels on a first date, or when you are deeply in love whether you are young or old, and in heterosexual or same-sex relationships. Dating Violence includes: Physical abuse like hitting, shoving, kicking, biting, or throwing things Emotional abuse like yelling, name-calling, bullying, embarrassing, keeping you away from your friends, saying you deserve the abuse, or
giving gifts to "make up" for the abuse.
Sexual abuse like forcing you to do something sexual (such as kissing or touching) or doing something sexual when you cannot agree to it
(like when you are very drunk).
Dating violence often starts with emotional abuse. You may think that behaviors like calling you names or insisting on seeing you all the time are a "normal" part of relationships. But they can lead to more serious kinds of abuse, like hitting, stalking, or preventing you from using birth control. It can cause serious harm to your body and your emotions.
2.) Why do people do it and how do we prevent it?
Abuse occurs in a dating relationship because abusers have a sense of entitlement. They believe they have the right to behave this way, that they are entitled to all of their partner's attention, affection, loyalty and time. Because of this sense of entitlement the abuser makes the choice to engage in this type of behavior. There is a misconception that alcohol, other drugs, anger or stress cause dating violence because these factors often accompany the violence. While these outside characteristics are a contributing factor to the abuse), they do not cause someone to use violence against another person. The reason abusers make the choice to use violence is because they can, because it works and because they have the opportunity and selfinterest to do so. To prevent this people especially students should receive education about healthy relationships in as a part of health education. These lessons should include understanding and identifying healthy and unhealthy relationship patterns, effective ways to communicate relationship needs and manage conflict, and strategies to avoid or end an unhealthy relationship. All young people have the right to be safe in their relationships. Dating violence affects young people in a unique way and can have long-lasting negative physical and psychological consequences. Providing young people with the communication and conflict resolution skills, support, and resources to avoid or end unhealthy and violent relationships is key to their well-being. Meanwhile, underlying causes such as poverty, and violence as a social norm, must be addressed in order to bring an end to relationship violence.