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Teen Dating Violence Is A Serious Problem Summary

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Summary #1-Teen violence is still a big problem In the article “Teen Dating Violence Is a Serious Problem” by sadie F. Dingfelder, it state that teens violence is a serious problem that can really affect your health and other negative consequences. "I thought I was a pretty aware parent,"(Dingfelder). In this quote it explain that teen violence is extremely bad, and even parents don’t realize how bad it is because they thought their child will never be capable of such thing or that their child will never be in that kind of situation. Teens violence is something people don’t want to talk about because they don’t really knows how to talk about it, or something people know about but choose to be quiet about it. It is something that is still …show more content…

The author breaks the topic into five big statements to explain why teen dating violence is just an overstatement. The first statement is looking at commonly Cited numbers is trying to ask if teens violence is really increasing or just something that people are overstating. The author state that teenages females girls have reported being sexually or physically abuse at least once. But a recent survey shows that teen violence have been significantly lower. "Females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to intimate partner violence than any other age group—at a rate almost triple the national average(Males). This was since 24 years ago. It decrease over the …show more content…

"Teen Dating Violence Is a Serious Problem." Teen Dating, edited by Louise I. Gerdes, Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010862205/OVIC?u=mnanwtechc&xid=7070faca. Accessed 12 Oct. 2017. Originally published as "Ending an Epidemic," http://www.apa.org/monitor, vol. 41, no. 3, Mar. 2010.
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Males, Mike. "The Problem of Teen Dating Violence Is Exaggerated." Teen Dating, edited by Louise I. Gerdes, Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010862206/OVIC?u=mnanwtechc&xid=4776f4ad. Accessed 12 Oct. 2017. Originally published as "Teen Dating Violence: The Invented 'Epidemic '," YouthFacts.org, 28 Aug.

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