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The talk : how adults can promote young people’s healthy relationships and prevent misogyny and sexual harassment Richard Weissbourd with Trisha Ross Anderson, Alison Cashin and Joe McIntyre

By: Weissbourd, Richard.
Contributor(s): Anderson, Trisha Ross | Cashin, Alison | McIntyre, Joe.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2017Description: electronic document (46 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): SEXUAL VIOLENCE | Making Caring Common Project | ADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIP ABUSE | ADOLESCENTS | CYBERBULLYING | DATING VIOLENCE | GENDER ISSUES | ONLINE HARASSMENT | PREVENTION | PRIMARY PREVENTION | RESOURCES FOR CAREGIVERS | RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS | RESOURCES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE | SEXUAL HARASSMENT | YOUNG PEOPLE | UNITED STATESOnline resources: Click here to access online | Access the website Summary: "Parents and other adults often fret a great deal about the “hook-up culture.” But that focus ignores two far more pervasive troubles related to young people’s romantic and sexual experiences. The first is that we as a society are failing to prepare young people for perhaps the most important thing they will do in life—learn how to love and develop caring, healthy romantic relationships. Second, most adults appear to be doing shockingly little to prevent or effectively address pervasive misogyny and sexual harassment among teens and young adults—problems that can infect both romantic relationships and many other areas of young people’s lives. Over the past several years, in an effort to understand young people’s romantic and sexual experiences, Making Caring Common has surveyed over 3,000 young adults and high school students from many parts of the country (United States) and has gathered insights from scores of formal interviews and informal conversations. We have also talked with adults who are key to young people, including parents, teachers, sport coaches, and counselors. What we found - and what our report describes - stands in stark contrast to the common story in our culture about young people’s romantic and sexual experiences." (Executive summary). On the Making Caring Common Project website you will also find links to resources for parents/caregivers, educators and young people. Record #5783
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"Parents and other adults often fret a great deal about the “hook-up culture.” But that focus ignores two far more pervasive troubles related to young people’s romantic and sexual experiences. The first is that we as a society are failing to prepare young people for perhaps the most important thing they will do in life—learn how to love and develop caring, healthy romantic relationships. Second, most adults appear to be doing shockingly little to prevent or effectively address pervasive misogyny and sexual harassment among teens and young adults—problems that can infect both romantic relationships and many other
areas of young people’s lives.

Over the past several years, in an effort to understand young people’s romantic and sexual experiences, Making Caring Common has surveyed over 3,000 young adults and high school students from many parts of the country (United States) and has gathered insights from scores of formal interviews and informal conversations. We have also talked with adults who are key to young people, including parents, teachers, sport coaches, and counselors.

What we found - and what our report describes - stands in stark contrast to the common story in our culture about young people’s romantic and sexual experiences." (Executive summary). On the Making Caring Common Project website you will also find links to resources for parents/caregivers, educators and young people. Record #5783