Each year, one in four adolescents reports verbal, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Choose Respect Campaign is an initiative to help adolescents form healthy relationships to prevent dating abuse before it starts. This initiative stresses the importance of respect as a foundation for building healthy relationships.
Parents are the key to preventing dating abuse. Children learn from parents' example in words and actions. It's never too early to talk to children about healthy, respectful relationships. This new compact, fold-out brochure shows parents how to keep the lines of communication open with children, adolescents, and teens, and discusses ways to tackle tough situations such as dating abuse and violence.
The brochure is packed with a wealth of timely information for parents including:
- How to recognize the warning signs of dating abuse
- An explanation of the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships
- 10 tips for speaking with children about respectful relationships
- 8 ways to stay involved in children's lives
- Definition of key terms including respect, anger management, problem solving, negotiation and compromise, assertiveness, and fairness
- A quiz about healthy relationship behaviors
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