Can education help?
November 6th, 2009 at 16:43A recent Sydney Morning Herald article by Andrew O’Keefe quoted studies that ’suggest one in seven boys (aged 12-20) believe it’s all right to force a girl to have sex if she was flirting. One in three boys believes most violence against women occurs because the woman provoked it. One in three year 10 girls who’ve had sex, have had unwanted (i.e. coerced) sex. These girls are our daughters. These boys are our sons.’
What can be done to change these attitudes? Various councils and sporting clubs are establishing programs to ‘educate’ boys in their attitudes to girls.
Can they work I wonder?
Posted by JohnLegg,
in Family violence