One in three teenagers say they know someone their age who has been hit, punched, choked or otherwise physically hurt by their partner. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says one in three young women will be abused before they reach 25 years old.
Such statistics prompted the domestic violence prevention group Saving Promise to launch a campaign Monday to raise awareness of the effects of the abuse, especially on people in their preteens to their 20s.
The campaign, Don’t Just Give A Damn, urges people to formally pledge to do something about domestic violence and to donate to research and education. Saving Promise is working with the Harvard school of public health, which has a "Learning Lab" on domestic violence.
[For more on this story by Jayne O'Donnell, go to https://www.usatoday.com/story...-promise/1501939002/]
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