The law requires middle and high schoolers to learn about ways to identify dating and family violence and child abuse.
“Starting today, teenagers will be armed with an education, with the tools they need to protect themselves against abuse by recognizing the warning signs of an abusive relationship and the resources to escape,” said Morris, who now serves as the assistant chief of the Grand Prairie Police Department.
Getting it passed was “not an easy task at all,” said Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, who helped usher the legislation through the statehouse. In the United States, 1 in 3 teenagers experience physical, sexual or emotional abuse with someone they are in a relationship with and 43% of women in college report experiencing violent or abusive dating behaviors, according to love is respect , a project of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
“I think some kids may not know the aftermath of what it looks like and the fact that it happened in our very own district,” Jackson said.
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