by GWMCHstudents, gwmchstudents@gmail.com

April 1, 2011 - 8:03 am

Last month was National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month as awareness was being raised among teens and the surrounding community about the signs, as well as to discourage this type of violence.

by Lynn Harris

June 29, 2009 - 8:00 am

Sexual violence and coercion by intimate partners plays a critical role in unintended pregnancy, the spread of sexually transmitted infections, poor maternal outcomes and in abortion. The problems of violence, control, and contraceptive sabotage are so widespread that public-health advocates see teen pregnancy as a “canary in a coal mine” or one indicator of possible abuse.

by Kiersten Stewart, Family Violence Prevention Fund

April 6, 2009 - 7:00 am

Physical violence is not the only form of abuse facing young women today. Birth control sabotage and sexual coercion occur much more often than many realize.