Abuse found in teenage dating relationships
A new survey has found that a large number of teenagers in dating relationships have experienced different levels of abuse. Many of them do not even know the warning signs of abuse in a relationship and most parents do not know what is going on in the lives of their children.
Nearly 70 percent of teens under the age of 14 who have been in a relationship says they have experienced some kind of abuse.
Of the youngest teens aged 11 to 12, 40 percent of them say that their friends have been victims of verbal abuse in their relationships and one-in-ten say their friends have had sex.
Older teens are victims to physical abuse and only half of these teens know the signs of abuse in a relationship.
There is even a wave of technological abuse where teens are abused by their partner through the use of pagers, cell-phones and other gadgets.
Experts say that the reasons for these behaviours in the relationships of the young are due to the fact that parents think they know what is going on with their children but do not. Furthermore, children are having sex at a much younger age which us another major cause for this violence.
[Via: CBS News]