"Killings prompt effort to reduce teen dating violence" by Elizabeth Olson, New York Times | January 4, 2009
NEW YORK - .... Although there are no definitive national studies on the prevalence of abuse in adolescent relationships, public health research indicates that the rate of such abusive relationships has hovered around 10 percent.
Translation: this is -- ONCE AGAIN -- a piece of AGENDA-PUSHING GARBAGE!
Specialists say the abuse appears to be increasing as more harassment, name-calling, and ridicule takes place among teenagers on the Internet and by cellphone.
"We are identifying teen dating abuse and violence more than ever," said Dr. Elizabeth Miller, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis, who began doing research on abuse in teenage dating relationships nearly a decade ago....
Just ONE MORE EXCUSE to get up your asses, kids!
Indianapolis recently started a program to train police officers in public schools to recognize the early signs of abuse in relationships.
Last month, a group of Indianapolis organizations won a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help schools tackle the issue, part of $18 million in grants to 10 communities to help break patterns where children exposed to violence at home repeat it in their adult relationships....
Of course, SENDING THEM OFF to WARS based on UNHOLY LIES to KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE isn't a problem!
