Teen Dating
Violence
Question: Why
do the film producers use this statistic in the documentary Miss
Representation?
Like I have stated in an earlier
post we have been watching sections of a documentary in class called Miss Representation. During the video a
statistic came up that said roughly twenty-five percent of girls will
experience teen dating violence. On this website,
it describes teen dating violence as physical, sexual, psychological, or
emotional violence within a dating relationship. Why did they decide to use
this statistic? Hopefully this post will show you evidence to find the answer
to this question.
Teen dating violence has really been
beginning at a very young age according to this website. Says that teen dating violence begins to occur at the age
of eleven and ends roughly around age seventeen. This is extremely sad to see
that before you actually are a teen, you can be involved with teen dating
violence. To be honest, in my opinion, seeing eleven year olds’s dating is just
nonsense! Something to prevent, or at least cut down on teen violence, can be
parents not letting their kids “date” before they are a certain age.
The producers in the film believe
teen violence is a problem and needs to be stopped. This is the reason why teen
violence showed up in the film in the first place, to show the viewers that
teen violence is a problem that needs to be stopped.
I think the violence has become a
bigger problem due to kids watching shows that are above their maturity level
and they think it is okay for them to do things that they have seen on the
television. Teen violence may be occurring due to how a boys’ father abuses his
mother and the boy may think it’s okay for him to treat girls that way too,
because he wants to be just like his dad. (316)
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