Self-Defense & Violence Prevention Blog

T.W. Budig recently reported on the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women’s press conference:

A Princeton high school senior approached the television cameras at the Capitol and said [domestic violence] must end.

Tony Hallin, founding member of Teens Against Dating Abuse, spoke at the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women press conference on Feb. 7 and explained that ending the domestic abuse means starting early.

“We want to end domestic violence because it doesn’t stop when teens become adults,” said Hallin. “Our hope is that future domestic violence is eliminated everywhere in Minnesota.”

Speaking after the press conference, Hallin said he has heard “horror stories” from friends about incidents of date abuse that had happen to them.

Hallin, who will be an instructor at a teen leadership summit in late February in St. Paul, views the problem of date violence as affecting all high schools.

“High schools are all different,” he said. “But in ways they’re all the same.”

Read entire article by T.W. Budig.

I agree that domestic violence must stop, and we need to educate and protect children so that they learn to both not abuse others and protect themselves from abuse.

What do you think?