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A resolution passed by the United States Senate this month focuses on the burgeoning issue of teen dating violence. February has been designated as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and preclusion Month. In the past Congress had designated the February first full week of as a prevention week.

Love is respect, National teen dating abuse helpline has put together a comprehensive resources page specially created for this month’s awareness efforts. Disturbing trends of teen dating include some teenager girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner.

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Jasmine Parojiya 18 years old was found hanged in her bedroom. One months before she sent nude photos of herself to her boyfriend and what are you guessed it, when they broke up he distributed her photos for entire the world dating sites to see. Jasmine was of course stressed, called a slut and a whore she became disheartened, depressed and a became an outsider at school.

At that time Jasmine’s mother was unaware of the extent of her daughter’s suffering and only found out about her daughter’s desolation after receiving letters from school about her absence. Her mother take the information to dating sites & began driving her to school but she still skipped classes. Jasmine told her mother that she would always hear “Oh, that’s the girl who sent the pictures–she’s just a whore”.

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So the sad but true, teen dating violence is common in February and around the year. Both online dating girls and boys are engaged in acts of physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual violation in heterosexual and same sex relationships.

Many states have to deal with the real life issues of whether to charge teens with online dating possession and distribution of child pornography. By definition if someone possesses or disseminates nude photos of anyone under the age of 18 it is considered child pornography.

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We need to promote girls and boys’ awareness of the types of behaviors that are “over the line” as well as encourage the single dating development of the skills they need to set healthy boundaries, communicate feelings and wants, address conflicts, and tolerate the full range of emotions that come along with dating and romantic feelings.

Raise this issue with girls and guys in your groups. Ask them to define TDV and what they see going on amongst their peers, siblings, and in their own single dating relationships. Explore the issues with them of how they learn these behaviors and what their beliefs are related to power and control, gender roles, and also, what family and society tell them to do.

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 7:14 am and is filed under teen dating.

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