According to an Oct. 11 article by Muriel Y. Vega and Stephanie Ramage of The Sunday Paper, Fonda (who is the founder and CEO of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention) touched on a topic of particular interest in Georgia:
One in six Georgia high school students has been abused by a boyfriend or girlfriend, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s nearly twice the national average for teenage dating violence. ...
"Besides doing physical harm and even causing death, teen dating violence and abuse is associated with higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, unplanned pregnancy, STDs, depression, and suicidal tendencies," says Fonda. "This is a problem that impacts more than one million young people each year, crossing all race and socioeconomic boundaries, perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of violence and abuse."
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