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The statistics are surprising. Based on a Commonwealth Fund study, nearly one-third of American girls report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or partner at some time within their lives.
While the mere considered this really is overwhelming, there is good news. By educating yourself and those around you about violence against women, a difference can be made by you to those currently encountering it and to the decades ahead. This can be a group problem and it will take most of us to solve the problem and create change in our towns.
"Many folks are unwilling to fairly share abuse because they contemplate it a 'individual issue' or even a 'women's issue,'" said Sheryl Cates, executive director of the Texas Council on Family Violence, workers of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. "But learning that domestic violence is really a pattern of get a handle on and power that adults or adolescents use against their romantic partners can start to breakdown some of the popular beliefs about this matter and help take it out of behind closed doors."
Recently, men took up the mantle and turn out loud and clear with their message: no more violence against women.
A proven way men are receiving involved is by speaking with the young boys inside their lives about building healthier relationships.
Despite main-stream wisdom, teenagers need assistance from people. Research shows that nearly 1 / 2 of girls and boys say that they want to know more about relationship abuse - what it means and how exactly to end it. In the same review, 31 percent of adolescents age 13 to 17 reported they or perhaps a friend experienced dating violence.
Person men play a significant and special role in molding the views and attitudes in a young man's life. Talking to kids often and early is a important step in stopping the cycle of abuse. In so doing, they are able to counteract the countless messages children see and hear equating violence with "being strong," "acting tough" and "being a man".
Compared to that end, Liz Claiborne Inc. has worked with experts in your community of family violence and compiled a guide to help men start so what can be difficult interactions with the children in their lives on this important topic.
The handbook, called "Tough Talk: What Boys Need to find out About Relationship Abuse," is the latest in some pamphlets developed by the organization to greatly help parents, women, men and adolescents address the matter.
