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NATIONAL
Friday, October 24, 2014
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Survey details scope of teen dating abuse
Pat Carter/AP file photo
In this Feb. 11,2011, photo, more than 300 people participate in
Barry University’s first College Brides Walk, with many walk-
ing 7.5 miles in bridal gowns to bring awareness of domestic
and dating violence.
By David Crary
AP National Writer
NEW YORK - From vio-
lence to verbal taunts, abusive
dating behavior is pervasive
among America’s adolescents,
according to a new, federally
funded survey. It says a majority
of boys and girls who date de-
scribe themselves as both vic-
tims and perpetrators.
Sponsored by the National
Institute of Justice, the National
Survey on Teen Relationships
and Intimate Violence was con-
ducted by NORC at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, a prominent re-
search center that provided pre-
liminary results to The Associat-
ed Press.
Input came from a nation-
wide sample of 667 youths aged
12-18 who’d been dating within
the past year and who complet-
ed a self-administered online
questionnaire.
Nearly 20 percent of both
boys and girls reported them-
selves as victims of physical and
sexual abuse in dating relation-
ships — but the researchers re-
ported what they called a star-
tling finding when they asked
about psychological abuse,
broadly defined as actions rang-
ing from name-calling to exces-
sive tracking of a victim. More
than 60 percent of each gender
reported being victims and per-
petrators of such behavior.
The survey found no sub-
stantive differences in measures
by ethnicity, family income or
geographic location.
Elizabeth Mumford, one of
the two lead researchers for the
survey, acknowledged that some
of the behaviors defined as psy-
chological abuse — such as in-
sults and accusations of flirting
— are commonplace but said
they shouldn’t be viewed as
harmless.
“None of these things are
healthy interactions,” she said.
“It’s almost more of a concern
that our gut reaction is to accept
this as natural.”
The Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention, in its cam-
paigns against teen dating vio-
lence, also stresses the potential
seriousness of psychological
abuse.
“Teens often think some be-
haviors, like teasing and name
calling, are a ‘normal’ part of a
relationship,” says a CDC fact
sheet. “However, these behav-
iors can become abusive and de-
velop into more serious forms of
violence.”
Bruce Taylor, the other lead
researcher for the NORC survey,
said the overall abuse figures
were higher than previous na-
tional studies of dating abuse,
revealing “the startlingly wide-
spread nature of this problem.”
Using a definition under
which adolescent relationship
abuse can occur in person or
through electronic means, in
public or private, and between
current or past dating partners,
the survey estimates that 25 mil-
lion U.S. adolescents are victims
and nearly 23 million are perpe-
trators.
Taylor and Mumford said the
high rates in their survey may
stem in part from youths being
candid due to the privacy of the
online format. They also sug-
gested that dating abuse is now
so common that young people
have little concern about admit-
ting to it.
The survey found fairly simi-
lar rates of victimization and
perpetration among boys and
girls — even in the sub-catego-
ries of physical abuse and sexual
abuse.
Many previous studies have
found that girls are markedly
more likely to be victims of phys-
ical and sexual dating abuse
than boys.
However, the researchers de-
tected a shift as adolescents age.
‘We found that girls perpe-
trate serious threats or physical
violence more than boys at ages
12-14, but that boys become the
more common perpetrators of
serious threats or physical vio-
lence by ages 15-18,” they wrote.
Mumford noted that the
questionnaire did not delve into
such details as which party insti-
gated a two-way confrontation,
or whether injuries resulted.
She said it was possible girls
suffered more serious injuries
than boys.
“Our work suggests that pre-
vention programs need to ad-
dress both victimization and
perpetration, not one or the oth-
er,” Mumford and Taylor wrote.
They recommended starting
prevention programs in middle
school, and noted that that teen
dating violence is viewed as a
possible precursor to adult inti-
mate-partner violence.
Andra Tharp, a health scien-
tist with the CDC s violence pre-
vention division, said two-way
teen dating violence — with
both partners engaging in abuse
— is widespread.
She said it’s an ongoing chal-
lenge among experts in the field
to find the right balance in ad-
dressing the role of gender — ex-
ploring the extent to which both
boys and girls are perpetrators,
while identifying situations
where girls are likely to suffer
more serious harm.
For example, Tharp said that
if a boyfriend retaliates against a
girlfriend who hit him, there’s a
higher risk of injury to the girl if
—as is likely — the boy is stron-
ger.
Dr. Elizabeth Miller, chief of
adolescent medicine at Chil-
dren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of
UPMC, said it’s important to
make distinctions about the
types of abuse. She contends
that, while boys and girls may
engage in psychological abuse at
comparable levels, girls are
more likely to be the victims in
cases of sexual violence and co-
ercion.
“When you look at the need
for medical attention, females
are experiencing more severe
consequences,” she said. We’re
doing ourselves a disservice if we
pretend it’s all the same.”
Officials: N.Y. doctor has Ebola
By Jonathan Lemire
and Colleen Long
Associated Press
NEW YORK — An emer-
gency room doctor who recently
returned to the city after treating
Ebola patients in West Africa
has tested positive for the virus,
city officials said Thursday. He’s
the fourth case in the U.S. and
the first in the nation’s biggest
city.
Craig Spencer, a member of
Doctors Without Borders, re-
turned from Guinea more than
a week ago and reported Thurs-
day coming down with a 103-de-
gree fever and diarrhea.
He was rushed to Manhat-
tan’s Bellevue Hospital, a desig-
nated Ebola center, and was be-
ing treated in a specially built
isolation ward.
A law enforcement official
and a city official received notifi-
cation of Spencer’s initial test re-
sults and told The Associated
Press on the condition of ano-
nymity Thursday night but
weren’t authorized to discuss
the case publicly before a city
news conference. A further test
by the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention will be nec-
essary to confirm the initial test
results.
The CDC has dispatched an
Ebola response team to New
York, and the city’s disease de-
tectives have been tracing the
doctor’s contacts to identify any-
one who may be at risk.
City officials say Spencer ac-
knowledged riding the subway
and taking a cab to a Brooklyn
bowling alley in the past week
before he started showing symp-
toms.
His Harlem apartment was
cordoned off, and his fiancee,
who was not showing symp-
toms, was being watched in a
quarantine ward at Bellevue.
The Department of Health was
on site across the street from the
apartment building Thursday
night, giving out information to
area residents.
Health officials say the
chances of the average New
Yorker contracting Ebola, which
is spread through direct contact
with the bodily fluids of an infec-
ted person, are slim. Someone
can’t be infected just by being
near someone who’s sick with
Ebola. Someone isn’t contagious
unless he is sick. Symptoms are
similar to malaria and cholera.
The Ebola epidemic in West
Africa has killed about 4,800
people. In the United States, the
first person diagnosed with the
disease was a Liberian man, who
fell ill days after arriving in Dal-
las and later died, becoming the
only fatality. Two nurses who
treated him were infected and
are hospitalized.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said
proper protocols were followed
every step of the way in Spen-
cer’s case and it didn’t appear he
had been showing symptoms for
very long.
“The patient is in good shape
and has gone into a great deal of
detail with our personnel as to
his actions the last few days so
we have a lot to work with,” de
Blasio said earlier in the day.
‘We have a patient who has been
very communicative and precise
and who has only been back a
very short time and has been
quite clear about individuals he
had close contact with.”
According to a rough time-
line provided by city officials,
Spencer’s symptoms developed
Wednesday, prompting him to
isolate himself in his apartment.
When he felt worse Thurs-
day, he and his fiancee made a
joint call to authorities to detail
his symptoms and his travels.
EMTs in full Ebola gear arrived
and took him to Bellevue in an
ambulance surrounded by po-
lice squad cars.
Doctors Without Borders, an
international humanitarian or-
ganization, said per the guide-
lines it provides its staff mem-
bers on their return from Ebola
assignments, “the individual en-
gaged in regular health monitor-
ing and reported this develop-
ment immediately.” As of Oct. 14,
the organization said 16 staff
members have been infected
and nine have died.
Spencer, 33, works at Ne-
wYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
University Medical Center. He
had not seen any patients or
been to the hospital since his re-
turn, the hospital said in a state-
ment, calling him a “dedicated
humanitarian” who “went to an
area of medical crisis to help a
desperately underserved popu-
lation.”
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