1 OCT 2023 · Kendra experienced an abusive relationship as a teen.
Twenty years later she is just now realizing how bad it was...
According to the https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/teendatingviolence/fastfact.html teen dating violence (TDV), also called, “dating violence”, is an https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fastfact.html that affects millions of young people in the United States. Dating violence can take place in person, online, or through technology. It is a type of https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/index.html that can include the following types of behavior:
- Physical violence is when a person hurts or tries to hurt a partner by hitting, kicking, or using another type of physical force.
- Sexual violence is forcing or attempting to force a partner to take part in a sex act and or sexual touching when the partner does not consent or is unable to consent or refuse. It also includes non-physical sexual behaviors like posting or sharing sexual pictures of a partner without their consent or sexting someone without their consent.
- Psychological aggression is the use of verbal and non-verbal communication with the intent to harm a partner mentally or emotionally and exert control over a partner.
- Stalking is a pattern of repeated, unwanted attention and contact by a current or former partner that causes fear or safety concern for an individual victim or someone close to the victim.
https://www.thehotline.org/ is 800.799.SAFE (7233), or you can START to 88788
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