Youth Relationship Fact Sheet

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Below you will find some facts and Website links to assist you in writing the problem and needs sections of your Healthy Marriage grant.

• About 30 % of youth live in one-parent homes. National Campaign Analysis of State Population from 2000 US Bureau of the Census. www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs.html
  
  
• One in eleven high school students say that they have been hit, slapped or physically hurt on purpose by their boyfriend or girlfriend in the past year. 1 in 11 students also reported that they had been forced to have sexual intercourse when they did not want to have intercourse. (CDC. Youth risk behavior surveillance, 1999) www.cdc.gov   Programs and Campaigns
  
  
• For additional teen relationship abuse statistics see also http://loveisnotabuse.com/surveyresults_teens2006.htm
  
  
• 30% of unwed teen mothers will not complete high school. US Department of Health and Human Services  www.hhs.gov/children/index.shtml