Back in the last century, when I was a teenager, I became a peer violence educator. The YWCA recruited and trained young women and men to conduct workshops at schools, youth groups, and other organized teen gathering places. We talked about the statistics of violence in teen relationships, the prevalence of which surprised me back then. I had thought that domestic violence was something that only affected adults. We talked about what people could do to help themselves or their friends if they were in an abusive situation. ...more