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Healthy Relationships. Ms. Smith Ms. Furman Ms. Ruiz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7ewj7cpQ4. What Makes a Healthy Relationship?. Mutual Respect Trust Honesty Support Fairness/Equality Separate Identities Good Communication. What makes a Relationship Unhealthy?. Meanness
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Healthy Relationships Ms. Smith Ms. Furman Ms. Ruiz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7ewj7cpQ4
What Makes a Healthy Relationship? • Mutual Respect • Trust • Honesty • Support • Fairness/Equality • Separate Identities • Good Communication
What makes a Relationship Unhealthy? • Meanness • Disrespect • Controlling • Abusive Behavior • Pressuring you to do things you don’t want to do
Pressure What do you do if somebody pressures you to do something that you don’t want to do?
Pros • Meet new people/start relationships • Easier to find people with the same interests and personality traits • Get to know each other before meeting face to face • Convenient and Economical (stay at home) • Choose who to date • Emotionally Safe (rejection/physical issues)
Cons • Lack of emotional commitment • Dangerous • Who is on the other end of the computer? • Digital abuse and harassment • Used as a tool to spread rumors /gossip
“Social networking sites, texts, cell phones and emails—have given abusers another way to control, degrade and frighten their partners” -Urban Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2gIEqW-lL8
How Teens Get Abused and Harassed through Technology • Used my social networking account without permission: reported by 8.7% of teens in relationships • Sent me texts/e-mails/etc. to engage in sexual acts I did not want: 7.4% • Pressured me to send a sexual or naked photo of myself: 6.8% • Sent threatening messages to me: 6.1% • Sent me so many messages it made me feel unsafe: 5.5% • Posted embarrassing photos of me online: 5.5% • Wrote nasty things about me on his or her profile page: 5.1% • Spread rumors about me using a cell phone/e-mail/a networking site, etc.: 5.0% • Made me afraid when I did not respond to my cell phone/texts/etc.: 4.2% • Sent sexual or naked photos I did not want: 3.8%
• Used information from my social networking site to harass me: 3.7% • Sent me instant messages or chats that made me feel scared: 3.4% • Used a cell phone/text/etc. to threaten to harm me physically: 2.7% • Took video of me and sent it to his or her friends without my permission: 2.6% • Threatened me if I did not send a sexual or naked photo of myself: 2.6% • Created a profile page about me knowing it would upset me: 1.3% -Urban Institute 2013
It can happen to anyone! Manti Te’o“Girlfriend Hoax”
It can happen to anyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT1GvPQG904