Comments on: Dating violence among 6th grade students http://calcasa.org/prevention/dating-violence-among-6th-grade-students/ Fri, 18 May 2012 06:29:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jennifer Rauhouse http://calcasa.org/prevention/dating-violence-among-6th-grade-students/comment-page-1/#comment-17598 Jennifer Rauhouse Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:23:26 +0000 http://calcasa.org/?p=9597#comment-17598 Thanx for posting David Lee. This is exactly why we need Primary Prevetion and that everyone must be included in efforts. Regardless of percentages attached to gender, a large number of young people are thinking violence in relationships is normal. These are the underlying conditions we must work to prevent before they occur but when they do occur, we all respond with empathy, compassion and adequate resources for all. This is a world where safety, equality and respect are norms. This is primary prevention. Thank you. Thanx for posting David Lee. This is exactly why we need Primary Prevetion and that everyone must be included in efforts. Regardless of percentages attached to gender, a large number of young people are thinking violence in relationships is normal. These are the underlying conditions we must work to prevent before they occur but when they do occur, we all respond with empathy, compassion and adequate resources for all. This is a world where safety, equality and respect are norms. This is primary prevention. Thank you.

]]> By: Jennifer Rey http://calcasa.org/prevention/dating-violence-among-6th-grade-students/comment-page-1/#comment-17480 Jennifer Rey Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:03:06 +0000 http://calcasa.org/?p=9597#comment-17480 This is an interesting study and one that I would like to have a full copy of. To try and answer your last question, is it possible that through self-reporting, boys are less likely to admit that they were physical with a girl? This could be for multiple reasons but two pop in my head. 1 - they didn't view it as physical violence or "harmful" (but with the whole explanation of the study, it is possible this was explained more before they answered) 2 - they know it is wrong to be violent and didn't admit it even in anonymous studies. On the otherhand, when physical violence is viewed as acceptable by girls towards their male partners under certain circumstances, you will find that girls have no problem self reporting this information. We find that girls in our educational programs almost feel empowered by the fact that they smacked or hit their male partner when "they step out of line." This may account for the findings being very different from what we know about older teens and adult dating/domestic violence. Our program in Palm Beach County, FL was more accepted in a high school setting but now that we have been successful for 2 years, we are moving towards the middle school level in the fall. We are excited to begin at this younger age because with our secondary prevention programs, it is apparent to us that this IS the more appropriate age group to be doing prevention with. This is an interesting study and one that I would like to have a full copy of. To try and answer your last question, is it possible that through self-reporting, boys are less likely to admit that they were physical with a girl? This could be for multiple reasons but two pop in my head. 1 – they didn’t view it as physical violence or “harmful” (but with the whole explanation of the study, it is possible this was explained more before they answered) 2 – they know it is wrong to be violent and didn’t admit it even in anonymous studies.

On the otherhand, when physical violence is viewed as acceptable by girls towards their male partners under certain circumstances, you will find that girls have no problem self reporting this information. We find that girls in our educational programs almost feel empowered by the fact that they smacked or hit their male partner when “they step out of line.” This may account for the findings being very different from what we know about older teens and adult dating/domestic violence.

Our program in Palm Beach County, FL was more accepted in a high school setting but now that we have been successful for 2 years, we are moving towards the middle school level in the fall. We are excited to begin at this younger age because with our secondary prevention programs, it is apparent to us that this IS the more appropriate age group to be doing prevention with.

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