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Young women targets of abuse via technology
BLOG: Get the facts from Women's Aid.
Women’s Aid are the national superheroes providing services and support to women experiencing violence and abuse. We felt like their latest report was worth sharing, especially since a recent Spunout.ie Poll revealed: 67% or people (189 total votes) claimed to have been in an abusive relationship. This is alarming stuff!
Women's Aid is clear that domestic violence can happen to anyone: your sister, your mother, your friends, your colleagues or yourself.
The lowdown from Women's Aid
- 1 in 5 Irish women experience physical, emotional, financial or sexual abuse.
- Young women are just as much at risk from violence and abuse from their boyfriends as older women.
- Almost 60% of those who had experienced severe abuse in intimate relationships first experienced it when they were under the age of 25.
- Of 39 women ages 18-25 years who were killed since 1996, 53% were murdered by a boyfriend or former boyfriend.
- Leaving a relationship does not always end abuse.
- Almost a fifth of women continued to be abused, stalked and harassed by former partners. These women disclosed how they are bombarded with texts and calls often telling them, in explicit detail, how they will be attacked or even killed.
- Some women disclosed that their current or ex-boyfriends were stalking them on social networking sites.
Women's Aid MAIN MESSAGE to young women
"I want to say especially to younger women that we often hear from older women living with domestic violence that the signs that her partner was possessive and controlling were there from the start. But to her and those around her, it appeared like he was just too into her. We want to say trust your instincts and get help." - Director, Margaret Martin
Women's Aid
Web: www.womensaid.ie
FREEPHONE: 1800 341 900
Women's Aid offers confidential information, advice, support and understanding to women who are being physically, sexually or mentally abused in their own homes. Their helpline also acts as a referral to refugees, counselling services, solicitors, legal aid and other agencies (both statutory and voluntary), which are helpful to women experiencing abuse within a relationship.
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Stay safe and trust that gut instinct!
- The SpunOut Crew