Adolescent Dating Violence

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This paper explores the abuse and power and control issues associated with adolescent dating violence. It includes the characteristics of violence and the wide-spread extent of the problem. This work also identifies some of the common causes of adolescent dating violence by exploring risk factors, attitudes towards violence, and gender roles. Finally it identifies some of the devastating long-term consequences and lack of public awareness. All these factors present an unhealthy picture of the likelihood that teens will either be a victim of or at least exposed to dating violence with little public appreciation of the extent or devastating results of the problem.

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"Dating violence that is prevalent in the adult world is also common among adolescents. They experience physical and sexual abuse, threats, insults, denigration, social control, indifference and harassment. Three studies cited in Violence in adolescent dating relationships reveal problems specific to adolescent dating. A study by Lavoie in 1992 revealed that adolescent boys spread rumors to blemish the reputation of a girl after a breakup of the relationship or the girl's refusal to have sexual intercourse. Another study by Poitras' and Lavoie in 1994 found that kissing, necking and petting were the most common types of unwanted sexual experiences followed by sexual intercourse, and then attempts of penetration. The aggressors of the dating violence use coercion as their primary means to get what they wanted, but they also resorted to the threat or the use of physical force and the deliberate use of drugs or alcohol. Abuse of authority isn't as common to adolescent dating violence as it is in the adult world because fewer adolescents are in positions of authority. Finally, another study by Lavoie and Hbert discovered that sexual harassment was the most common form of adolescent dating violence and including belittling the partner who refuses to have sexual intercourse or threatening to end the relationship if sex is denied, and getting a partner to take drugs or alcohol in order to have intercourse."

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