The Importance Of Dating Violence In Schools

Dating violence and sexual assault among college students is a well known phenomenon. These definitions over arch the perpetration of physical, emotional or threat abuse and a continuum of unwanted to sexual contact. One of the biggest risk factors associated with both is the consumption of alcohol. I think to decrease rates of sexual assault and dating violence on campus’s would be to get rid of the Greek system completely. Such institutions are rooted in tradition of male patriarchy and the continuum of a gender socialization process of what makes a young relationship “normal”. Males in fraternities and females in sororities are both more susceptible to hold stereotypical gender attitudes and experience sexual assault. This would be a hard plan to implement because the Greek system is such a huge tradition at college but I think a significant step like this could in fact help protect college students from dating violence and sexual assault.

Sex education for American youth has been a topic of discussion across the nation since the early 1980s. Teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease are two major problems throughout the U.S.. Sexually transmitted infections have been an ongoing problem for American people since World War I. To combat the growing teen pregnancy and STI rates, the U.S. established organized sex education. Since sex education has been integrated in schools across the nation, it has been heavily influenced by religion. The federal government has funded abstinence-only education programs for over a quarter century. Abstinence-only

like gender, social class, sexual orientation, and other aspects of life. With this social attunement

Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the U.S. in the early 1980s the issue of sex education for American youth has had the attention of the nation. There are about 400,000 teen births every year in the U.S, with about 9 billion in associated public costs. STI contraction in general, as well as teen pregnancy, have put the subject even more so on the forefront of the nation’s leading issues. The approach and method for proper and effective sex education has been hotly debated. Some believe that teaching abstinence-only until marriage is the best method while others believe that a more comprehensive approach, which includes abstinence promotion as well as contraceptive information, is necessary. Abstinence-only program curriculums disregard

Teen Dating Violence (TDV) is described as the physical, emotional, or sexual abuse that occurs within a relationship while dating. TDV can occur in person, or electronically by a current or former partner (CDC, 2014). Many adolescents and adults are unaware of the prevalence of TDV but a recent national study revealed that nearly 10% of adolescents have reported being hit, slapped, or intentionally physically hurt by someone they had claimed to be dating (CDC, 2014). About 20% of adult women who reported experiencing some form of intimate partner violence (IPV) also reported experiencing TDV between the ages of 11-17 (CDC, 2014). Also, black students experience TDV (14%) at a significantly higher rate than

Everyone remembers having to go to a sex-ed class in late middle school or early high school. Most people remember it as extremely awkward and slightly terrifying. The difference between comprehensive sex-ed and abstinence only education can be life or death. Comprehensive sex-ed teaches people about contraception, sexual orientations, which needs to be updated, and how to be safe in general. Abstinence-only sex-ed basically only teaches to wait to have sexual interactions until married, and the benefits of it. The United States has some problems. Teen pregnancies here are two times as high as other industrialized countries (Harris), and half of all STI cases are

Relationships are always portrayed to children and adolescents by Disney to be like a fairytale. Everything will be perfect and they will live happily ever after. The problem is that not everyone’s relationship is a fairytale or has a happy ending. Couples go through problems that can be overcome but sometimes one of the partners can have a different way of overcoming it using violence against the other partner. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website (2016), violent relationships can start at the beginning of a relationship and last a long time. It can be from something so simple like name calling and can continue to escalade until the relationship becomes violent. A survey done in the United States by the

Dating violence is most commonly thought of in mature adult relationships, but it is also alarmingly common among youth. Youth experience many forms of dating violence. Dating violence includes a large range of abusive behaviors, such as physical, emotional, and sexual assault. These abusive behaviors occur between two people who have entered a romantic or sexual relationship together, and consider themselves to be a couple. Dating violence and victimization may occur in any romantic or sexual relationship, but the population of heterosexual female youth are more susceptible to experiencing this abuse. This paper is intended to examine the relationship that risk factors play in both the lives of perpetrators and victims alike. Risk factors are any characteristics that an individual possesses that could provide them with a predisposition towards violence, or towards being victimized by a romantic partner. Risk factors may include, but are not limited to: substance abuse, poor performance in school, lack of social acceptance, and mental health (Dank, Lachman, Zweig, & Yahner, 2013). Other risk factors can include family life and deviancy (Vézina & Hébert, 2007). An intervention method of decreasing youth dating violence will also be examined. This method consists of providing youth with appropriate ways of behaving in a relationship through a variety of techniques. By examining the roles played by both risk factors and intervention, it is apparent that female youth are more

“Nearly 1.5 million high school students across the country experience physical violence at the hands of a dating partner each year” (Duret). Teenage dating violence is on the rise. Due to recent advances in technology, abuse issues are more prevalent; technology allows room for students to lash out over text messaging and through social media. However, teen violence can be prevented. The government has established laws and campaigns to educate and protect victims. Teenagers go through many changes during their adolescent years and peer influence can make it hard to decipher between right and wrong. However, by high school, teenagers should be able to determine and understand healthy relationships; unfortunately, teenage dating violence statistics continue to rise at alarming rates.

Girls are now more likely than boys, according to recent research, to report being bullied in schools. Other studies have shown that girls are often more adept than boys in using other forms of destructive relational aggression — including exclusion, isolation, rumoring, gossiping, sarcasm, pitting friends against one another, and other revealing or altering personal secrets. Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter can further enable and boost these kinds of emotional violence between young

The dating violence among teens who are in a dating relationship has been around for many years (one article says the problem started in the 1920). This issue is targeted towards more girls because of the sexism that has been created in our society and not enough information being provided to girls and their families. Teen dating violence is a problem that people should care because it affects many girls from different backgrounds. It influences the decisions that girls are making regarding their life choices. Teen dating violence is a social justice issue because girls aren't getting the equity that they should have in their daily lives. By law everyone deserves equality, but the minute a boy hits, or engages in any form of teen dating violence,

In the first teen case study, there is clear statements and evidence describing the severity of the violence in the relationship between both of the individuals. As the statement reads, there is no signs of equality between them, since they both allow their violent behavior to push each other to their limit. In addition, according to the description given, there are multiple evidence that suggest that the young teens are having a healthy relationship, since in several occasions physical violence has been present. Furthermore, the power of dynamics to the teen equality wheel describes how the presence of anger abuse was also present in the relationship, since both of the individuals lost the respect for

Abstinence-only sexuality education does more harm to students than good, and is shown to have adverse effects on its students. The CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance study showed that 10% of youth in the US have never been formally taught about HIV or AIDS, the majority being students in abstinence-only programs. (as cited in Mallone and Rodriguez) With abstinence-until-marriage programs failing to provide vital information on STDs, millions of teeangers are at higher risk to engage in unsafe sexual activity. Bruckner and Bearman studies conclude that 88% of teens who pledge abstinence break that pledge, and of that 88%, ⅓ less likely to use contraception. (as cited in Taverners) Abstinence-only education does not only fail to enforce its ideals, but also fails to educate its students properly in comprehensive sexuality aspects. This lack of proper education can come with drastic consequences, resulting from a huge lack of vital information. A study conducted by Henry Watman found that “80% of federally funded abstinence until marriage

Studies not only show that abstinence only programs do nothing to delay the age at which teens and young adults begin having sex, but they also fail to provide any information about alternative and necessary healthy sexual behaviors ((Santelli, J., Ott, M. A., Lyon, M., Rogers, J., Summers, D., & Schleifer, R, 2006). Humans are sexual beings, and yes one of the ways to avoid STI’s and pregnancy is through abstinence. However, these programs decline to take into account or acknowledge that these teens will inevitably become sexually active at one point or another, and in turn fail to equip them with the proper knowledge on how to be safe when they do make the choice to have sex. Making sex taboo does not create a population of well-informed young people with safe sex practices and it definitely has not aided in resolving the epidemic of teen STI’s. Rather it has exacerbated it by denying youth with the correct information and tools they need to make well informed healthy