February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. One in three teens will experience physical, sexual or emotional abuse from someone they are in a relationship with before becoming an adult. Moreso, nearly half (43%) of college women report experiencing violent or abusive dating behaviors. Teen dating violence is an issue that affects 1.4 million high school students each year, yet only 33% of teens who were in an abusive relationship told anyone about it. To learn more,
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Dating abuse is a pattern of coercive, intimidating, or manipulative behaviors used to exert power and control over a partner. To learn more about waring signs of abuse,
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Adolescents in abusive relationships often carry these unhealthy patterns of violence into future relationships. Indeed, children who are victimized or witness violence frequently bring this experience with them to the playground, the classroom, later into teen relationships and, ultimately, they can end up the victims and perpetrators of adult intimate partner violence. If you are a teen and need help,
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