{"id":2040,"date":"2025-08-18T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enmodeado.ekloweb.com\/?post_type=boite-a-outils&p=2040"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:16:15","slug":"intimate-partner-violence","status":"publish","type":"boite-a-outils","link":"https:\/\/enmodeado.ca\/en\/boite-a-outils\/intimate-partner-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Intimate partner violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Many young people have their first intimate and romantic relationships during their teen years. These relationships, heavily charged with emotion, play an important role in developing a teen\u2019s identity and sexuality. While these intimate relationships are often healthy and respectful, unfortunately many are tainted by violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In teen dating, violence may take various forms: insults, jealousy, controlling the other and who they can see, manipulation, blackmail and threats, punching, non-consensual sexual contact, etc. These experiences of violence may occur in a face-to-face relationship or in a virtual relationship (cyberviolence). All young people can become victims of intimate partner violence regardless their sex, gender, sexual orientation and culture. All teens are susceptible to becoming victims, perpetrators of or witnesses to violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever form violence takes in an intimate relationship, physical, psychological, verbal, or sexual, it scars the victim and can lead to a multitude of consequences on their mental, physical and sexual health, such as a more negative self-perception, psychological distress, anxiety or substance abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can be done about this particularly concerning reality? Several possible actions can contribute to reducing the incidence of intimate partner violence. As parents, you therefore play a crucial role in preventing and countering incidences of violence in young people\u2019s intimate relationships.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n

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