Relationships in teen lives could have a positive or negative outcome due to the fact that, teens based their whole lives around their relationships. Every teen is different when it comes to relations; some wait until they get to know one another while some rushes right into it. Relationship can raise problems such as stress, neglect of reasonability, and even feel pressured. When teens understand their emotions it allows them to let down their guard. Once a teen have let down their guard in a relationship it leads to them having sexually intercourse.
There are different types of bullying of which bullying statistics reveal almost half of all students have experienced. 35% of kids have been threatened online and six out of ten teenagers say they witness bullying in school every day. 75% of school shooting incidents have been linked to bullying and harassment. Verbal bullying is the most common type of bullying, with about 77 percent of all students being verbally bullied in some way including mental bullying or verbal abuse. These types of bullying can also include spreading rumors, yelling obscenities or other derogatory terms based on an individual's race, gender, sexual orientation and religion.
The alarming statistics that relate to youth violence are alarming and over whelming. Upon review of a study about youth violence, The Center for Disease Control (CDC) states that in 2007, 5764 young people aged 10-24 were murdered, that’s an average of 16 each day (CDC2010). With that said murder is the second leading cause of death for that age group. Other less severe crimes, but still inexcusable are also on the rise. Assaults committed by young people ages 10-24 were responsible for more than 656,000 injuries treated in an emergency room (CDC2010).
Teen homelessness is alarmingly high in the United States. “Approximately 1.6 million youth ages twelve to seventeen had run away from home and slept on the street in the past twelve months.” (1800Runaway.org) Fifty-percent of those teens will be trafficked for sex in the first forty-eight hours of leaving home. (National Runaway Hotline) Members of society often think that runaway kids are disobedient and rebellious, preferring to live on the streets rather than following the rules. The most prevalent reason children and teens runaway is because of the maltreatment they experience at the hands of parents or caregivers. Eighty percent of runaway and homeless girls reported having ever been sexually or physically abused.
Suicide2 Suicide amongst teens is a worldwide problem. Teens are committing suicide younger and younger. Studies show that the majority of teens that commit suicide are 14 years of age. Furthermore, males commit most of these teenage suicides. (Beautrais, Annette 2001) Also in 2003 the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey showed that 16.9% of teenagers in high school had seriously considered committing suicide and 8.5% attempted suicide in the past year.
The crime of indecent assault and battery occurs when an attacker, has non-consensual physical contact with a person in a sexual manner. This could be any unwarranted physical contact to a person’s private body. This assault is punishable to up to five years in prison. The majority of sexual assaults are committed against women between the ages of 15 and 25, making college-aged women the group with the highest vulnerability to being assaulted. In fact, according to Kelly Walker from campusspeak.com, and a sexual assault survivor, one in four women will be raped during their college experience.
• Expression of "damaged goods" syndrome • Angry, hostile, or aggressive behavior • Fear of being photographed • Anxious reaction to authority figures • Regressive, infantile behavior • Intense efforts to gain attention/affection from adults • Self-mutilative behavior • Newly acquired fear of the dark • Becoming withdrawn, isolated, and/or excessively worried • Excessive or early masturbation • Victimizing themselves, targeting a child, sibling, or friend (Survivors and Friends) When abuse in children goes undetected by their caregivers, it is liable to continue and escalate. When the abuse is finally ended, the abused are far from out of the nightmare, as their anxieties manifest in their
The main reasons teens leave their homes are due to physical or sexual abuse, drugs and alcohol, conflict between the family, and peer pressure (Hatter). When there is physical or sexual abuse within a family, teens find it helpful to leave when they feel like their safety is in danger. Also, a teen can develop feelings of rage, fear, or failure from the abuse, and running away seems like the best option to them. There are more cases of homeless teens that leave from physical abuse than sexual, but they play hand in hand in existing with one another. When physical abuse is present, sexual abuse isn’t far away, and more than not, the abuser is a member of the family, or a family friend.
How did this happen to me? What am I gonna tell my parents? it may sound like something out of a book but in fact this is a serious issue that affects many teenagers in this country every single year. Now a days you are walking around a huge amount of people who have at least once in their life time, been infected with a sexually transmitted infection -According to aids.gov, just in the year 2010 there was over 15,000 new cases of just HIV alone among 15-21 year olds - , there is also an estimate of 750,000 unwanted teen pregnancies. What is HIV ?
TeensHealth online magazine says, “Like anyone who's being bullied, people who are sexually bullied or harassed can feel a great deal of emotional stress if the situation continues without relief” (“Sexual…Bullying” 1). These comments can come in many forms, such as inappropriate jokes, word manipulation, threats, and name-calling (“Types…Harassment”). Studies were done to test the frequency of everyday sexual comments experienced by college students. These studies concluded more women were impacted by sexual comments than men, but both had an emotional reaction (Swim et al.). Society is so used to these offensive comments that most people do not think of sexual harassment when they hear one, or when one rolls off their tongue.