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Boys More Likely To Be Victims Of Teen Dating Violence Than Girls, Study Shows
www.studyfinds.org ^ | September 26, 2018 | by Terra Marquette

Posted on 09/27/2018 6:49:04 AM PDT by Red Badger

VANCOUVER — Who is more likely to be victimized by teen dating violence? If you’re quick to think it’s girls, new data shows you’re wrong. In a surprising twist, recently published research indicates boys are more likely to report being victims of dating violence committed by partners who hit, slap or push them.

Researchers with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) conducted a longitudinal study of dating violence. While reports of physical abuse went down over time, they say there is a troubling gender-related trend.

Five percent of teens reported physical abuse from their dating partners in 2013, down from 6 percent in 2003. But in the last year, 5.8 percent of boys reported dating violence compared to 4.2 percent of girls.

“It could be that it’s still socially acceptable for girls to hit or slap boys in dating relationships,” says lead author Catherine Shaffer, a PhD student with SFU, in a release. “This has been found in studies of adolescents in other countries as well.”

Researchers looked at data collected from three British Columbia Adolescent Health Surveys conducted over a 10-year timespan. Participants were 35,900 students in grades 7 through 12 who were in dating relationships. This is the first North American study to compare statistics for boys and girls and the first Canadian study to consider teen dating violence over the course of a decade.

Shaffer believes the overall decline in dating violence is positive. “Young people who experience dating violence are more likely to act out and take unnecessary risks, and they’re also more likely to experience depression or think about or attempt suicide,” she says. “That’s why it’s good to see that decline in dating violence over a 10-year span. It suggests that healthy relationship programs are making an impact among youth.”

Elizabeth Saewyc, senior study author and a UBC nursing professor, thinks the results tell us that teens in dating relationships need more support programs.

“A lot of our interventions assume that the girl is always the victim, but these findings tell us that it isn’t always so,” notes Saewyc. “And relationship violence, be it physical, sexual or other forms, and regardless who the perpetrator is, is never OK. Health-care providers, parents and caregivers, schools and others can protect teens from dating violence by helping them define what healthy relationships look like, even before their first date.”

Researchers say a study is needed to find out why boys are experiencing an increase in dating violence.

The study results were published on July 18, 2018 in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence; mgtow; redpill; slutwalk; teens; victims
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Interesting........................
1 posted on 09/27/2018 6:49:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I’d say it’s because there are less young ladies in the dating pool.


2 posted on 09/27/2018 6:51:02 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: Red Badger

Girls are especially mentally abusive. I know of what I speak.


3 posted on 09/27/2018 6:52:30 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Red Badger

Interesting but dumb.

What is the point? The point is lost.

The problem with “dating violence” is serious physical injury and over the long term psychological injury.

A slap from your girlfriend simply doesn’t count. This sounds like a case of bean counting replacing thinking.


4 posted on 09/27/2018 6:54:55 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Red Badger
Girls have little inhibition about hitting boys when they are emotionally upset with them, nor do they generally face legal consequences for doing so (except when the violence is lethal). Boys, on the other hand, are taught all their lives that they must never hit girls for any reason, and the current legal system has severe penalties for doing so.

Missing here is whether the survey was restricted to heterosexual couples. Homosexual relationships are notoriously more violent than hetero.

5 posted on 09/27/2018 6:57:19 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux
A slap from your girlfriend simply doesn’t count.

Fine. Then a slap from your boyfriend doesn't count either!

6 posted on 09/27/2018 6:57:51 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Apparently I voted demoncrat for 40 years. They all wore 'R' jerseys! 'R'atpublicans!)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux
A slap from your girlfriend simply doesn’t count.

A girl slapping a boy doesn't count as violence. A boy slapping a girl risks prison.

7 posted on 09/27/2018 6:59:12 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Red Badger

Sadly I believe this.

In the 21st. Century girls are nuts.
Had to break-up a girl fight at my church carnival a few years ago. One of the most violent things I’d ever seen.


8 posted on 09/27/2018 6:59:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“It could be that it’s still socially acceptable for girls to hit or slap boys in dating relationships,”

Accepted is not the same thing as acceptable.


9 posted on 09/27/2018 6:59:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

I have been a victim of female-to-male domestic violence. Since I won’t hit a woman, there is carte-blanche to hit me. The only response I will give is protection of my person and legal ramifications afterwards.


10 posted on 09/27/2018 7:01:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: Red Badger

The rise of soy boys and radical leftist feminists?


11 posted on 09/27/2018 7:07:42 AM PDT by Truth29
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“Girls are especially mentally abusive.”

Broke up with a few girls when I was a teen. It was usually not well recieved to say the least. Of course when they broke up with me it was always “can’t we be just friends?”...until they saw me with another girl. When they realize you’ve moved on they tend to freak out sometimes. At least thats my experience.


12 posted on 09/27/2018 7:09:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger

I had a very old Rabbi tell me that HaShem made men bigger to defend against woman’s natural tendency towards violence.

In general, I have found this to be a true statement.


13 posted on 09/27/2018 7:10:18 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Had to break-up a girl fight at my church carnival a few years ago. One of the most violent things I’d ever seen.”

Well, so much for picking a place that will keep things from getting ugly?


14 posted on 09/27/2018 7:11:00 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger
I wonder how that happened...

Link - Fair use

15 posted on 09/27/2018 7:11:42 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Had to break-up a girl fight at my church carnival a few years ago.

First time I broke up a girl fight over thirty years ago. I and another guy separated the girls and while I was restraining one of them another girl jumped in and started beating the one I was holding.

16 posted on 09/27/2018 7:12:35 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Jewbacca

And to run away faster......................


17 posted on 09/27/2018 7:13:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: Red Badger

Yep.

One of my lifting friends is a 25+ year cop. He’d agree with the statement that women are slightly more likely to be the instigators in domestic violence.

Men, however, are better at finishing it.

He noted there has been a change in policing to arrest both in that situation.

He also noted that men are getting smarter and walking out the door with the slap and calling the cops and that, while cops and judges are still resistant to blaming females, that worm is turning, too.

The most domestic violence calls are lesbians. They beat the crap out of each other.


18 posted on 09/27/2018 7:16:43 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Red Badger

The obvious explanation would be “homosexual violence” but no one wants to go there, I see.

Ah, science.


19 posted on 09/27/2018 7:19:19 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Red Badger

The real reason for the upturn in male victim dating violence.

Of course the media will sweep this under the rug.

20 posted on 09/27/2018 7:19:19 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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