Your teen has started dating! You have set up healthy boundaries and rules for them to follow. You stay involved and you ask the ‘right’ questions. But you recently hear a scary statistic about teen dating violence. Every one out of three youth in America are victims of physical, sexual, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner.
Physical abuse will often times leave evidence. It’s the emotional and verbal kind that are harder to spot. The goal is to identify red flags in the beginning stages of the relationship.
Here are some questions and scenarios that may help you protect your teen from an abusive relationship.
