Domestic Abuse

[Aiden]

Hiya - at school we're going a campaign on domestic abuse among young people. I would like it if I could include some Habbox(ers) in mine. If you have an opinion on this then please fill out the form below. It's aimed at 13 - 17 year olds so if you're around that age range then you'd be great! It will be very useful. Thanks.

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First Name:
Age:
City (UK only):
Gender:
Opinion:

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If you're struggling with ideas for your opinion then you could include:

Advice
Personal Experiences (no real names)
Domestic abuse of girls or boys more important
Is it still domestic abuse if its mentally? (and other ways which aren't physical)
Boys hitting girls - right?
Girls hitting boys - right?
Can young people be in love?

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If you want to be included but not personally mentioned, sent me a PM under a false name. Truthful stories only though if you have any.

[Empired]

Sent you my opinions! This is interesting but I'm not so keen on such a broad subject. As I said in the PM, domestic abuse is actually a massive topic with loads of different sides and stories. Nice to see a school trying to tackle it though. My school would never have thought to cover anything like this :rolleyes:

[lucaskf390]

Only people of UK can send?

[Aiden]

Only people of UK can send?

Yeah, sorry. It's for a charity based in the UK.

And I think it's a rather good thing to do in schools. It will be interesting to see how it all plans out... has to been done by March!

[lawrawrrr]

I'm older than 17 (20) but happy to help out still, let me know if I'm too old

[Aiden]

I'm older than 17 (20) but happy to help out still, let me know if I'm too old

I'm sure you'd be fine as long as you express the opinion for the ages of 13 to 17.

[lawrawrrr]

I'm sure you'd be fine as long as you express the opinion for the ages of 13 to 17.

Haha, it's not like anything's changed in my opinion since I was that age so yeah Will send it you soon!

[FlyingJesus]

Are you just looking for the opinions of youngsters or do you want facts to go alongside it as well because I have a hell of a lot of them on this subject which most people probably wouldn't have known (such as 70% of non-reciprocal abuse being committed by a female while people tend to think of abuse as a male crime) and would be glad to dig them up if you want them

[Aiden]

That'd be great FlyingJesus. I need to produce a lot of work out of this so as much as possible will be good! (Don't think I'm just putting anything in though - I'm not)

[FlyingJesus]

Oops fell asleep what a bell, sorry
Ok so some basics (with sources so you can pretend to have found and interpreted the studies yourself )

Really good study that covers quite a lot to start off, results show that
*24% of ALL heterosexual relationships involve some sort of abuse at one time or another
*49.7% of these were reciprocal ie: both parties were abusive to one another
*In the remaining number where only one partner was abusive, around 70% of the people being abusive were female (which means that around 85% of women and 65% of men in relationships are abusive to some degree)
*Women are more likely to be continually abusive (repeat performances) whereas men are more likely to cause reported injuries. However, higher-grade injuries even leading to full-scale mutilation and death are experienced more by abused males than females
*People in relationships of reciprocal violence are far more likely to escalate to injury than those where only one party is doing the abusing

Obviously ridiculously huge numbers all round which is really sad, does seem to show that the usual visual of a battered woman with a powerful husband continually attacking her is actually in the minority of DV cases though even though it's shown as the most prominent by the media



Really good site overall here, but possibly the most interesting point is that although around 40% of DV victims are male (which seems not to make sense going by the above figures but does since homosexual relationships (especially lesbian) are more violent than heterosexual ones) yet there are just 11 shelter spaces in the whole of the UK for men, as opposed to over 400 for women.



Finally (I promise!) one that relates directly to your project as it's about teen violence and abuse. It's slightly dated now but it very clearly shows that people who get involved in violence early on in life have a massively higher chance of being abusive in relationships all through their later life too. Girls in this study reported themselves as being more than twice as violent as their male counterparts which seems to suggest that none of the above problems are going away any time soon, and it all starts in the teenage years.

There's loads to get into if it's something that interests you, obv a bit heavy going for a school project but it's always good to learn in my view and of course always better to learn statistical facts than misrepresented portrayals