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An Online Resource Library on Gender-Based Violence.

Parents & Caregivers

Parents and caregivers play a critical role in preventing and responding to dating violence. Parents and caregivers can model and instill values that promote healthy dating relationships as well as observe signs of dating abuse or perpetration, and seek appropriate help for their children. The documents included in this section provide information to parents and caregivers on helping their children build healthy relationships, identifying if their children are experiencing or perpetrating dating abuse, initiating conversations about dating violence with their children, helping their children navigate dangerous relationships, and learning more about the dynamics of TDV.

RespectChallenge.jpgThe RESPECT! Campaign promotes healthy relationships through positive role modeling and respect education. The RESPECT! Challenge Action Toolkit offers resources and tools for parents, including tips for talking to youth about respectful relationships, guidelines on how to navigate their digital dating world, and information on modeling respect at home.

 

ITTTD.jpgHosted by Break the Cycle’s Love Is Not Abuse Coalition, It’s Time To Talk Day is an annual awareness day that aims to generate conversations about healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence and abuse. Download the guide to start planning your It's Time To Talk Day event for Teen DV Month!

Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook

Pre-teens and young teens who learn to develop healthy relationship skills are more likely to have healthy relationships throughout their lives. As a parent, you should provide reliable and accurate information to your 11-to-14-year-old about healthy relationships: what a healthy relationship feels like, looks like, and sounds like.

Navigating Teen Dating Relationships: A Parent’s Handbook

This handbook emphasizes the importance of talking to your teen about dating relationships. It provides guidance to parents of high school children on how to help teens form healthy relationships and how to protect them from the pressures to engage in risk behaviors.

Whose Kids? Our Kids! Teens, Sex, and Sexual Victimization

This document highlights the importance of parental monitoring to protect their children from become victims of sexual abuse. It provides guidance to parents to effectively monitor their children's activities, whereabouts, and companions without being overly intrusive.

Help Your Child

Parents are in a critical position to help their children develop healthy relationships and to provide life saving support if their children are in an abusive relationship. This handout offers helpful tips about what parents need to know and how they can be of help.

Dating Abuse: Tools for Talking to Teens

"Dating Abuse: Tools for Talking to Teens" explains the dynamics of teen dating abuse and provides usable strategies for all adults to have realistic and successful conversations with young people. The program and materials are offered free of charge.

Talking to Your Child About Pornography

"Overall, exposure to pornography creates unrealistic expectations of sexual activity for both men and women. As a parent, it’s important to have an open and honest discussion about pornography." This page offers some strategies for approaching the subject. 

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