{"id":303,"date":"2022-06-21T11:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breakthecycle.org\/dating-violence-seventh-grade\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:08:09","slug":"dating-violence-seventh-grade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/blog\/dating-violence-seventh-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating Abuse Common in the 7th Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"middle-col\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--base-3); color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">A <\/span>new study<span style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--base-3); color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"> confirmed what Break the Cycle sees everyday: dating abuse is common by middle school. Polling more than 1,400 seventh graders, the researchers turned up these startling statistics:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-block\">\n<div id=\"node-532\" class=\"node\">\n<div class=\"content clear-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>More than one in three (37%) students surveyed report being a victim of emotional dating violence in the last six months.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly one in six (15%) students surveyed report being a victim of physical dating violence in the last six months.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly two out of three students surveyed (63%) strongly agree with a harmful gender stereotype, such as &#8220;with boyfriends and girlfriends, the boy should be smarter than the girl.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"o877gxqusjkh4ofpr\">With 75% of seventh graders already having a boyfriend or girlfriend, everyone is at risk. That&#8217;s why Break the Cycle designed our Respect WORKS! program for middle and high schools. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hazelden.org\/OA_HTML\/ibeCZzpEntry.jsp?go=item&amp;item=105107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn how<\/a> to place our proven prevention model in your community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear-block\">\n<div class=\"meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-block-13\" class=\"clear-block block block-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p class=\"o877gxqusjkh4ofpr\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #middle-col --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study confirmed what Break the Cycle sees everyday: dating abuse is common by &#8230; <a title=\"Dating Abuse Common in the 7th Grade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/blog\/dating-violence-seventh-grade\/\" aria-label=\"More on Dating Abuse Common in the 7th Grade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":600,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/3069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.breakthecycle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}