Teen Dating Violence

Teen Dating Violence

Question: Why do the film producers use this statistic in the documentary Miss Representation?


          Like I have stated in an earlier post we have been watching a documentary called Miss Representation. During the video a statistic came up that said about 25% of girls will experience teen dating violence. On this website, it describes teen dating violence as the physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional violence within a dating relationship. Why did they decide to use this statistic? In this blog I hope to show you evidence and find the answer to this question.

Teen dating violence has really been starting at a very young age according to this website. It says that teen dating violence starts to occur at the age of 11 and ends around age 17. That is very sad to see that before you’re even a teen, you can be hit with dating violence. It doesn’t make much sense to me that an 11 year old is even in a relationship. One way to prevent teen dating violence is to have parents not let their kids “date” until they are a certain age. This is something that would really cut down the violence.

Obviously the film producers believe that teen dating violence is a problem and needs to be stopped. They put it in the documentary for people to see that it is a problem happening in the world. It isn’t just the film producers from Miss Representation that think teen dating violence is a problem. If you were to Google teen dating violence there are tons and tons of websites that show different statistics about it. It isn’t just a problem some people are worried about; many people are worried about it.

         I think it has become a problem from the way you have been taught growing up. If a boy lives in a home that his father abuses his mother he is going to see that and possibly think it is ok to do. Whatever it is, this problem needs to come to an end. 

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