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    Teen Dating Violence Teen dating violence in Florida does not get enough attention. Teen violence is caused by a variety of negative factors that directly or indirectly affect a teenager’s quality of life. Many of these factors come from a negative living environment. Ethically and morally teenagers are losing the value system that was once held as the core of humanity. Teen violence includes many different activities. These include fights, gang violence and suicide. The victims of teen violence

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    February is known as Teen Dating Awareness Month. Teen dating violence is anything from physical and intimate abuse to verbal abuse. Teen dating violence happens because, the abuser thinks it is okay, there's problems going on in the relationship, or they have their own personal problems. Some warning signs that a person might be abusive are violent outbursts, control issues, distancing their partner from others, puts partner down, and they aren't trusting. Ten percent of high school students report

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    epidemic. The figures of young people committing crimes that are serious, heterogeneous, or non-serious mirror those of offenders between the ages of eighteen and twenty. Any study can show the facts that youth violence and criminal acts are on the rise. The causes or signs of risk of teen violence can be shown on many factors. violent mesa, bullying, depression, being an outcast, fascination with guns or death, society opinion, and teenage mood swings. Individuals that exhibit these qualities very often

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    Adolescents can experience all forms of dating violence physical, emotional, sexual, stalking, coercion and electronic dating violence. Teen dating violence (TDV) is the sexual, physical, or psychological/emotional violence and stalking that occurs in person or electronically between partners in a current or former dating relationship (CDC, 2014). Mumford and Giordano (2008) proposes TDV can range from physical to emotional abuse between teens who are dating/romantic relationships. Arriga and

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    Prevent Teen Violence “Since 2013, there have been at least 173 school shootings in America — an average of nearly one a week.” (Everytown for Gun Safety, paragraph 1). Everytown for Gun Safety has been tracking this information since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that occurred in 2012. This information is an alarming wake up call for parents of teenagers, who fear the possibility of their children being victims of school shootings caused by teen violence. The leading causes of teen violence

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    Several studies identified a significant correlation among victims of teen dating violence and substance abuse. Those committing the act were more likely to be under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and victims show increasing signs of substance addiction to cope (Temple et al., 2013). Victims of teen dating violence can have increased problems associated with mental health, sexual risk behaviors, sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, weight issues, and suicidal ideology (Maas, 2010). As a

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    that there are some correlation between teenagers playing video games and how it affects the youth mentally. Heavy consumption of violence video games does indeed stimulate a change reaction in the brain waves, but there is no hard evidence stating that those changes causes teenagers to act aggressively and violently. On the contrary, it is a popular beliefs that violence video games does indeed causes teenagers to displayed unpleasant behaviors and actions because that is what they learned and observed

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    Teen Dating Violence: Case Study I and 2 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

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    Violent video games are blamed for causing violence, aggressive behaviors, crimes, bullying, fighting, and school shootings. The media portrays video games as a tool that influence children and teenagers to commit violent acts. During the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association case, the United States Supreme Court ruled the rejection of banning video games in California because studies have not proven the violence caused by video games. Statistics have shown the decrease in juvenile crime rates

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    For many teens, simulated violence games are apart of their daily lives. Research has shown that teens who participate in simulated violence games are more likely to experience problems in the future. Simulated violence games are highly problematic and push teens to be more aggressive and more mean than those who choose not to participate in these games. Simulated violence games should be avoided because the games could potentially teach these teens that violence is normal and killing isn’t a bad

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