Girlguiding has released Care versus Control:
Healthy Relationships, which explores girls’ views on coercion.
Key findings from the attitudes survey include:
- 23% of girls aged 11 – 21 showed a full understanding of what an abusive relationship is
- 21% said that telling you what you can and can’t wear was acceptable
- 12% of girls aged 11 – 21 said that telling you who you can and can’t spend time with could sometimes be ok
- 21% said that shouting at you or calling you names because of what you may have done could sometimes be ok
- 22% said that checking up on you and reading your phone could sometimes be ok
- 96% of girls aged 11 – 21 said that it was never acceptable for a boy to hit, kick or punch his girlfriend for talking to someone else at a party
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