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Young women age 15-24 are exposed to increased risk for physical and sexual domestic violence if they have controlling partners, found researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, published in the April issue of the JAMA journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, after surveying 600 women aged 15 to 24 who were patients at a reproductive health center.
An especially vulnerable population, researchers said, young women were more apt to enter controlling relationships if they were between the ages of 15 to 18, had been pregnant at least once, or were Hispanic, among other causes. Controlling relationships included having to ask partner's permission to see friends or family and before seeking health care.
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Posted by Jane
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:00
I’m concerned about the focus on women saying no to control instead of where the focus should be: on men exhibit controlling behaviors. Why isn’t the article (or the focus of this area of research) focused on why men are at risk of being controlling instead of women being at risk of being controlled. Once we re-focus our energies on the root of the problem, maybe we can start to see some change.
Posted by Jeffrey P.
Friday, April 08, 2011 12:37
Makes sense to me. Women who attach themselves to controlling men are . . . controlled. Nothing real new here.
We need to be teaching girls how to be women and what to look for in men and more importantly we need to teach boys how to be men.
We’re failing on both counts.
Posted by Jeffrey P
Friday, April 08, 2011 12:35
Seems common sensical to me. Women who attach themselves to controlling men are controlled.
We need to teach girls and women what to look for in a man, and how to be a woman AND more importantly we need to teach boys how to be men. We are failing in both categories.