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February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
Need a new book to
read? Here’s a list of books related Teen Dating Violence Awareness
Month:
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen, Rage by Julie Ann Peters,
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch, Breathing Underwater by Alex
Finn, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tonya Lee Stone,
In Love and In Danger by Barrie Levy, and Dating Violence:
True Stories of Hurt and Hope by John Hicks.
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season!
"It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the
perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the
universal desire to see, hear and speak no evil. The victim, on the
contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim
demands action, engagement and remembering."
-- Judy Herman
Domestic Abuse & Sexual Assault
Statistics
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1 out of 4 Women
will experience domestic violence during her lifetime.
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1 in 6 Women and 1 in 33 Men
have experienced an attempted rape or completed rape in their
lifetime.
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85%
of all domestic violence victims are female.
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Nearly 1 in 5 Teens
report that their boyfriend threatened violence or self-harm when
presented with the breakup of the relationship.
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More than 9 times
as many women were murdered by a man they knew (1,587 victims) than
were killed by someone they did not know (168).
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giving to New Horizons and United Way, we would not be able to help
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