When your teen is being abusive to their partner
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I think if your child or teen is being abusive to their partner, it's important to understand that it's not just young me, it's also young women.
One of the things you can do is hold them accountable for that. "I saw this. This isn't okay." It's important for parents to get involved. When you do confront them, it's not about saying they are horrible. It's about saying, "This is not okay." Maybe that involves getting them some counselling. Maybe contacting Levels of Respect and finding them a domestic abuse center that can get them some counselling, specific help that can be around battery intervention or abusive behavior in a relationship.
Levels of Respect is a great place to go, but it's also making sure that when you see it, you say something. You don't let it go. You don't let it go by.
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Brian PineroAbuse Helpline Coordinator
Brian Pinero is the director of the National Dating Abuse Helpline, the advocacy service provider behind loveisrespect.org. Through loveisrespect, teens and young adults can receive crisis intervention and education about healthy relationships via text, chat or phone. Pinero has dedicated over 10 years to helping teens and has previously supervised youth shelter services, been an investigator at Child Protective Services and worked as a juvenile probation officer.
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