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Article

8 Jul 2008

Author:
Kim Wells, Executive Director of Corp. Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV), on Domestic Violence & the Workplace blog

Liz Claiborne and National Association of Attorneys General Team Up to Help Tweens and Parents Recognize Abusive Relationships - Before They Start [USA]

Liz Claiborne Inc. released a survey on July 8 (today) that a surprising number of young adolescents are experiencing significant levels of dating violence and abuse. One in five children between the ages of 13 and 14 (20%) say their friends are victims of dating violence and nearly half of all tweens in relationships say they know friends who are verbally abused... President of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch...introduced an unprecedented initiative that was unanimously passed at NAAG’s June meeting to ensure that all Attorneys General work to incorporate a teen dating violence and abuse curriculum in every school in their states.