New study focuses on preventing teen dating violence with a ‘healthy relationship curriculum’
Texas Standard, October 6, 2021
Dating violence is a cycle researchers found can be broken among adolescents with the adoption of “a healthy relationship curriculum.” The multi-year study, led by Jeff Temple, director of the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Center for Violence Prevention, was published Oct. 6 in Pediatrics. “We teach kids everything,” Temple said. “We teach them about sports and athletics and music and math and English and history. But we don’t really teach them the most important skill, and that’s how to be in a relationship.”