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2. “Tween and Teen Dating Violence and Abuse Study,” Teen Research Unlimited for Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc. (formerly Liz Claiborne Inc.) and the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline, July 2008, https://www.breakthecycle.org/sites/default/files/pdf/survey-lina-tweens-2008.pdf.
3. Elizabeth Miller, Michele R. Decker, Anita Raj, Elizabeth Reed, Danelle Marable, and Jay G. Silverman, “Intimate Partner Violence and Health Care-Seeking Patterns Among Female Users of Urban Adolescent Clinics,” Maternal and Child Health Journal 14 (2010): 910–17 (published online September 17, 2009, doi: 10.1007/s10995-009-0520-z).
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6. Ibid, 249.
7. National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Teen Dating Violence—Help Prevent It,” Sara Bellum Blog, February 14, 2012, http://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/teen-dating-violence-help-prevent-it; Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj, Lorelei A. Mucci, and Jeanne E. Hathaway, “Dating Violence Against Adolescent Girls and Associated Substance Use, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy, and Suicidality,” Journal of the American Medical Association 286, no. 5 (August 1, 2001): 572–579.
8. Bruce Perry, quoted in Heather Forbes and B. Bryan Post, Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control (Boulder, CO: Beyond Consequences Institute, 2006).
9. Ibid.
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12. J. R. Temple, J. A. Paul, P. van den Berg, V. D. Le, A. McElhany, and B. W. Temple, “Teen Sexting and Its Association with Sexual Behaviors,” Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 166, no. 9 (2012): 828–833.
13. Internet Watch Foundation, “Young People Are Warned They May Lose Control Over Their Images and Videos Once They Are Uploaded Online,” October 22, 2012, http://www.iwf.org.uk/about-iwf/news/post/334-young-people-are-warned-they-may-lose-control-over-their-images-and-videos-once-they-are-uploaded-online.
14. Elizabeth Miller and Rebecca Levenson, Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse (San Francisco: Futures Without Violence, 2012), 7.
15. Ibid., 14.
16. G. M. Wingood, R. DiClemente, D. H. McCree, K. Harrington, and S. L. Davies, “Dating Violence and the Sexual Health of Black Adolescent Females,” Pediatrics 107, no 5. (2001): 1–4, quoted in Elizabeth Miller and Rebecca Levenson, Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse (San Francisco: Futures Without Violence, 2012), 15.
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18. Elizabeth Miller and Rebecca Levenson, Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse (San Francisco: Futures Without Violence, 2012), 15.
19. Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Berkeley: University of California, 1999).
20. Craig A. Anderson, Leonard Berkowitz, Edward Donnerstein, L. Rowell Huesmann, James D. Johnson, Daniel Linz, Neil M. Malamuth, and Ellen Wartella, “The Influence of Media Violence on Youth,” Journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest 4, no. 3 (December 2003): 81–110.
21. D. Gil-González, C. Vives-Cases, M. T. Ruiz, M. Carrasco-Portiño, and C. Alvarez-Dardet, “Childhood Experiences of Violence in Perpetrators as a Risk Factor of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review,” Journal of Public Health 30, no. 1 (2008): 14–22.
22. Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Encinitas, CA: PuddleDancer Press, 2003), 79.
23. Heather Forbes and B. Bryan Post, Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control (Boulder, CO: Beyond Consequences Institute, 2006), 17.
24. Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Encinitas, CA: PuddleDancer Press, 2003), 186–188.
25. Ibid.
26. Linda Burgess Chamberlain, The Amazing Brain: What Every Parent and Caregiver Needs to Know (Philadelphia: Health Federation of Philadelphia, 2008).
27. David Dobbs, “Beautiful Brains,” National Geographic (October 2011), 3.
28. Ibid.
29. Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005, 2006).
30. Michael Riera, Staying Connected to Your Teenager (Oakland, CA: Perseus, 2003).
31. Michael Riera, Uncommon Sense for Parents of Teenagers (Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts Press, 1995), 7.
32. Adapted from Start Strong Idaho, “Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook,” http://idvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Middle-School-Parent-Handbook.pdf.
33. “Guidelines for Conversations with Teens” adapted from Start Strong Idaho, “Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook,” http://idvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Middle-School-Parent-Handbook.pdf.
34. Adapted from Patricia Occhiuzzo Giggans and Barrie Levy, Fifty Ways to a Safer World (Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1997); Barrie Levy, In Love and In Danger: A Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006).
35. Adapted from Start Strong Idaho, “Healthy Relationships Protect Teens: A Parent’s Handbook,” http://idvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Middle-School-Parent-Handbook.pdf.
36. Thomas Gordon, Parent Effectiveness Training (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).
37. Adapted from Loveisrespect.org, “Should We Break Up?”, http://www.loveisrespect.org/get-help/should-we-breakup.
38. 2010 State Law Report Cards: A National Survey of Teen Dating Violence Laws (Los Angeles: Break the Cycle, 2012), 7, http://www.loveisrespect.org/sites/default/files/2010-State-Law-Report-Cards-Full-Report.pdf.