Teen Dating & Violence

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Interface Children & Family Services

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What is teen dating violence?

Definition:

A pattern of behaviors used to obtain power and control over another person.




Physical

  • Pulling hair

  • Choking

  • Strangling

  • Pushing

  • Using a weapon

  • Slapping

  • Scratching

  • Punching

  • Biting

  • Kicking

  • Pinching

  • Burning



Emotional

  • Preventing the person from talking to friends / family

  • Insulting the person or their friends / family

  • Threatening to commit suicide

  • Humiliating the person

  • Financial control

  • Put-downs

  • Name calling

  • Yelling and screaming

  • Harming (or threatening to harm the person, their family, friends, pets, property, etc.)

  • Spreading rumors

  • Stalking



Digital

  • Excessive or unwanted text messaging, instant messaging, phone calls or e mails to check up on someone

  • Posing as a person and altering his or her accounts or profiles

  • Sharing sexual or nude pictures of the person that were given in confidence

  • Accessing someone’s accounts and changing passwords so he or she can no longer access them