Break the Cycle

Because Everyone Deserves a Healthy Relationship

Objectives:

■Recognize the prevalence of domestic violence.

■Identify warning signs of an abusive relationship.

Note-Taking Strategy

Record everything

that is underlined.

Pattern of assaultive and controlling behaviors used by one person against another in order to gain or maintain

power in a relationship.

How Does

Dating

Violence

Affect Health?

How Does Dating Violence Affect Health?

Youth who are victims are more likely to experience symptoms of depression and anxiety, negatively impact emotional development, engage in unhealthy behaviors, like using tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, or exhibit antisocial behaviors and think about suicide. Youth who are victims of

dating violence in high school are at higher risk for victimization during college.

Talk to your neighbor!

Discuss if a parent has

talked to you about

healthy relationships?

Age at First Experience of Intimate Partner Abuse for Women

Age at First Experience of Intimate Partner Abuse for Men

Every 15 seconds in the United States a woman is battered.

Domestic violence occurs in a very predictable cycle.

Most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police.

85% of domestic violence victims are women.

Females who are 18-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.

On average, a victim tries to leave her abuser 8 times before ending the cycle.

About 75% of the calls to law enforcement/emergency room visits by domestic violence victims occur after separation from batterers. (Most dangerous time in terms of homicide,…..50% or More)

Sue Triplett Cancer fighter

A mother of two for most of her life.

Counselor… to all who came to her

A teacher who taught life lessons (PNHS)

Taught curriculum to help stop domestic

abuse, including reading Breathing

Underwater.

Forms of Relationship Abuse:

1. Physical

2. Psychological

Verbal, Emotional

3. Sexual

4. Economic

5. Social (Technology)

10 Signs of an Abusive Relationship

*Identify examples throughout

Breathing Underwater

1. Jealousy

2. Isolation

3. Possessiveness

4. Name Calling

5. Controlling

Behavior

6. Threatens Self-Harm

7. Rough Play

8. Non-consensual Sex

9. Double Standards

10. Violence