Healthy Relationship News – January 2013
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Research suggests that having the skills to manage intimate partner relationships can help youth make better decisions related to school, employment, pregnancy prevention, and establishing strong, constructive relationships. Growing attention is being paid to whether improving relationship education for youth currently in foster care can help improve their outcomes.
To explore this topic further, Child Trends conducted a research and evaluation review, Putting Youth Relationship Education on the Child Welfare Agenda: Findings from a Research and Evaluation Review.
(Ed Note: We are pleased to have Dibble programs reviewed in this important publication.)
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Teen Attitudes about Marriage and Family
KEY FINDING: The desire of teenagers of both sexes for “a good marriage and family life” has remained high over the past few decades. Boys are almost ten percentage points less desirous than girls, however, and they are also a little more pessimistic about the possibility of a long-term marriage. Both boys and girls have become more accepting of lifestyles that are alternatives to marriage, including unwed childbearing and premarital cohabitation.
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Teen Dating Violence Affects Adult Health
Victims of teen dating violence have a higher chance of experiencing adverse health outcomes as young adults. After adjusting for variables such as child maltreatment, socio-demographics, and pubertal status, results showed that after five years:
Adolescent females who previously reported victimization by a boyfriend had a higher chance of:
Adolescent males who were victims of dating violence by a girlfriend were more likely to report:
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How Good Dating Strategies Can Help Teens Get Summer Retail Jobs Before Adults
When competing for summer retail jobs, adults with a lifetime of job interviewing skills seem to have an unfair competitive advantage over teens with little or no interview experience. But teen job hunters have a secret interview weapon that adult applicants lack – good dating skills.
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USEFUL TOOLS
Data indicates that adolescents are more likely to experience intimate partner abuse than adults. Homeless youth are known to be particularly likely to have been victimized and to be victimizers. Relationship Traffic was created as an intimate partner abuse prevention curriculum specifically for runaway and homeless youth.
Although this curriculum is designed for a specific population, it contains a wealth of information and activities to teach youth about topics such as maintaining personal boundaries, cultural influences, and red flags for dangerous relationships that could be used or adapted for a variety of populations.
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An Invitation for High School Seniors to Write About Finances
As the economy has suffered in recent years and college costs have risen, high school seniors have grappled with the fallout in their own families and channeled their feelings into an increasing number of memorable college application essays about sacrifice, social policy and affluence or its opposite.
Given the Your Money team’s long-standing endorsement of raising the financial consciousness of the younger set, we wanted to see these writings for ourselves. So we’re asking high school seniors who are applying for college this year to send us application essays that have anything at all to do with money, working, class, the economy and affluence (or lack thereof).
(Ed Note: If you are using Money Habitudes, this could be a great class project!)
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Coming in February! Can’t Buy Me Love: How to be Rich in Life and Love
Learn how understanding the emotional side of money can help young people make wiser choices in life, love and money management. When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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Come see us!
January 31- February 3, 2013
February 6-8, 2013
February 20-22, 2013
February 25-March 1, 2013
March 20-23, 2013
April 5-6, 2013
April 24-26, 2013
June 26-29, 2013 American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences National Conference
July 14-15, 2013 Kentucky Association of Careers and Technical Education Louisville, KY Workshop: Presenter: Nancy Lenk
Would you like a Dibble Outreach Educator at your conference? Email Irene Varley, Director of Education, at Irene@DibbleInstitute.org to find out how.
Please let us know if you are having an open to the public event featuring Dibble curricula. We would be happy to help you publicize it. |
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