Many young women have been in an abusive relationship without even realising. A new website aims to teach them about coercive control
Repeated stalking’: Edward and Bella in Twilight. Photograph: Allstar/Summit Entertainment/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
Why are we always pointing to Instagram as the cause of mental illness in our teenagers? It’s frustrating that abusive relationships, and the trauma they cause, are rarely mentioned in discussions about the prevalence of mental health problems in young people. Research by Women’s Aid and Cosmopolitan has found that a third of teenage girls have been in an abusive relationship. And, if that isn’t shocking enough, when the remaining two-thirds were asked further questions, it emerged that 64% of them had, in fact, experienced abusive behaviour – they just didn’t realise it was abuse.
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