The key findings from the Center for the Advancement of Women’s (CFAW) publication, “Violence Against Women: A Report of Findings From National Focus Groups with Women and Teen Girls” elaborate causes of non-reporting by teens, in that the victims of emotional, verbal and psychological abuse who participated in their study stated they didn’t know where [...]

Accounts of aggression and violence among young people abound in academic journals, novels, school curricula, web-based media, and print and televised news reports.  The complex representations of youth as both victims and perpetrators of abuse have birthed a complementary lexicon of terminologies that describe the myriad ways in which hostilities manifest among this population.  Two [...]