Young People
Young people are at greater risk of experiencing sexual assault and violence in their relationships than are older people.
An estimated one in three teenagers have witnessed violence in their homes. Young women are more likely to experience sexual assault from partners, acquaintances and strangers than older women. Many children and young people are also subjected to abuse by family members.
Young people, either individually or as a social group, have great difficulty drawing attention to abuse and have little control over interventions that are implemented on their behalf. The dominant cultural construction of young people as irrelevant, unreliable, or as the property of their parents means that they are left vulnerable to abuse.
Women’s Aid maintain a website called The Hideout, which provides advice, support and information for young people of Domestic Abuse.
