According to the National Center for Victims of Crime, teen dating violence runs across all race, gender, and socioeconomic lines.  Unfortunately when it comes to age, The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that teens are at much higher risk of intimate partner abuse when compared to adult rates. For this reason, public health experts have begun focusing prevention efforts as early as junior high. But is there a model for partner abuse that deals with young people and can be easily replicated?

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Attorney General Eric Holder

The results from a 2008 quantitative survey conducted by the US Justice Department with 4,459 American youth have just been released and suggest that approximately 60% of American youth are directly or indirectly exposed to violence on a daily basis. Upon this announcement, Attorney General Eric Holder punched out the no-brainer, politically safe sound bite, “Those numbers are astonishing, and they are unacceptable.” Astonishing? Really?

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One minute you’re on top of the world. You’re a multi-platinum selling musical artist with tons of cash, endorsements, adoring fans, and public enamor for your charitable contributions. Your girlfriend is one of the hottest young musical acts in the world. Teenage girls want to be with you and teenage guys want to be you. Then, you go and blow it by beating the living crap out of your girlfriend on the side of a California highway, taking the keys and fleeing on foot, leaving her beaten, bloody, hysterical, covered with bite marks and alone in your $2000 a day rented Lamborghini on the side of the road.

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