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Taking a Stand: How Teens Are Working to End Relationship Violence
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report
May 18, 2021
Taking a Stand: How Teens Are Working to End Relationship Violence
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report May 18, 2021
Relationship violence is a public health crisis.
An estimated 15.5 million children in the U.S. are exposed to domestic violence each year. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a quarter of girls and 15 percent of boys experience some form of intimate partner violence such as sexual assault, physical abuse or stalking before the age of 18. Children and teens who experience dating violence or who are exposed to domestic violence at home are at higher risk for mental health problems. And, due to their past trauma, they are more likely than other young people to experience abusive relationships as adults.
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California laws go easier on rapists who attack their spouses. Legislation to change that has gone nowhere
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Kolieka Seigle, president of the California National Organization for Women, teamed up with other women’s groups and progressive district attorneys to seek a change to marital rape laws.Stephen Lam / The Chronicle
Stanford law professor Michele Dauber thought pushing for changes to the state’s spousal rape laws would be a no-brainer.
After all, this is 2021. In so-called progressive California. Why would anybody support old-fashioned laws distinguishing spousal rape from rape, making the latter subject to far more serious consequences?