HOW TO TALK TO OUR TEENS AND GIRLS ABOUT DATING ABUSE AND VIOLENCE
BY: ROBIN D. STONE (ESSENCE)
Girls need to know that if a partner hits, cuts, chokes, intimidates or belittles you, or tries to control when and where you come and go and with whom you talk, he is abusing you, and it needs to stop.
Make sure she knows that There's no such thing as causing this to happen.
(talk about situations like Rihanna and Chris Brown)
For more information go to: http://www.loveisrespect.org/
provides such resources as a 24 hour national teen dating abuse help line: 866-331-9474.
Girls Inc. http://www.girlsinc.org/ is an empowerment organization for girls. Check out its girls' Bill of rights at www.girlsinc.org/about/girls-bill-of-rights or call 800-374-4475
WHERE TO GET HELP
National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-SAFE (7233); http://www.ndvh.org/
National Coalition Against Violence; http://www.ncadv.org/
http://www.thatsnotcool.com/
Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community
877-643-8222 http://www.idvaac.org/
The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute
770-909-0715 http://www.bcdvi.org/
A Call to Men
917-922-6738 http://www.acalltomen.org/
Men Stopping Violence
866-717-9317
http://www.menstoppingviolence.org/
If you are being abused or you have a loved one who is being abused, contact the following organizations:
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