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“ In the beginning he phoned me almost ten times a day. I felt really special, but then he started hassling me about how I should do things, like what I should wear, how I should act. he started saying things about my friends, like who I should see and stuff about where I could go. For a long time I thought his jealousy meant he loved me”
 | 8.8% prevalence of physical violence from a boyfriend or girlfriend in
past year (14.1% African American adolescent girls; 7.4% white adolescent
girls) and 12.5% of females reporting being forced into sex (5.2%boys - 11.6%
of African American and 10.5% of Hispanic girls and 6.7% of white girls) (CDC
fact book). |
| Attitudes like "He wouldn't hit me if he didn't love me" are
common in violent teen relationships. |
| Dating violence is one of the major sources of violence in a teenagers
life and most do not talk about it. |
| Dating violence can be dangerous. A push or a shove can grow in to a
punch or even the use of a weapon. In 1995, 77 people in the state of Maryland
were killed as a result of domestic violence |
| While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes
overall, women are 5 to 8 times more likely than men to be victimized by an
intimate partner. (U.S. Department of Justice) |
| Violence by an intimate accounts for about 21% of violent crime
experienced by women and about 2% of the violence experienced by men. ( U.S.
Department of Justice) |
| In 92% of all domestic violence incidents, crimes are committed by men
against women. (U.S. Department of Justice) |
| Forty percent of teenage girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their
age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend. (Children Now/Kaiser Permanente
poll) |
| Husbands and boyfriends commit 13,000 acts of violence against women in
the workplace every year. (US. Department of Justice) |
| 75% of domestic assaults occur at the point of separation or divorce (U.S. Department of Justice) |
If you are at risk of being abused please seek help. You can call The House of Ruth's Teen Program at 410-554-8466.
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