Domestic Violence / Dating Violence for Teens
The SOS Shelter Inc. can provide non-residential counseling
(meaning, you do not have to live at the Shelter).
CALL TOLL-FREE-1-877-754-4340 or (607)
754-4340 to make an appointment.
Dating Violence Includes: Threats, Physical, Sexual,
Emotional, or Verbal Abuse.
Parents or other caretakers in the
home can also be abusive. Domestic violence against
you or witnessing domestic violence in your home is a reason to seek
shelter or assistance.
Abuse ≠ “Fights”. Dating
violence is when one person is afraid of and/or intimidated by the
other person in the relationship.
Emotional Abuse Includes:
- Accusations
- Mind games
- Criticizing
- Humiliation
- Put-downs
- Jealousy
- Mind Games
- Possessiveness
- Stealing $
- Threatening to “out” you (if in a gay or lesbian
relationship)
- Intense questioning
- Threatening suicide
Sexual Abuse Includes:
- Accusations of unfaithfulness
- Unwanted grabbing or touching sexual parts of your body
- Sexual acts performed by you b/c of fear of partner
- Not allowing you to use protection
- Forced Sex
- Rape with an object
- Making you feel bad about sexual history
- Rape
- Forcing you to be involved in Prostitution
- Called sexual names
- Forcing you to undress
- Taking videos or pictures of someone undressing or involved
in sexual behavior without consent
- Making someone dress sexier or less sexy
- Forcing someone to watch others engaged in sexual acts
- Any sexual activity between an adult and a child or a child
with a much younger child
Physical Abuse Includes:
- Pushing
- Grabbing
- Hitting
- Slapping
- Punching
- Kicking
- Pinching
- Spitting at you
- Holding you Down
- Trapping you in a room or car & blocking you from leaving
- Hair pulling
- Biting
- Strangling
- Throwing objects at you
- Use of Weapons against you
- Arm twisting
- Burning
- Carrying you against your will
- Abandoning you in an unsafe place
- Chasing
- Hiding your keys or shoes preventing you from leaving
- Refusing to help someone when they are sick or injured
- Following or stalking
Additional Information for Teens
Follow these links for more information regarding teenage
relationship violence: