Approach to gender violence in adolescence
Many are the news and articles that in recent years appear in different newspapers and online publications with respect to gender violence towards young women.
According to “El País” in its digital version published on May 28, 2019, the following headline “Machista violence grows more among young men” wrote more among young men ”. The fact he handled was 31.286 women registered last year in the central registry for the protection of victims of domestic and gender violence, 7.9% more than in 2017 .
In this same year on September 9, Europss.It is entitled its cover “The Prosecutor’s Office sees ‘disturbing’ the increase in gender and sexual violence between young people and links it to pornography” making special emphasis, as we almost always talk about equality and prevention of gender violence, of the medium educational. It also aims to reflect why the young women work with ‘discrimination patterns’ despite the awareness against ill -treatment.
But why does gender violence increase among young people? Pray other specimens we have been able to access, on the Sozziable website.It is that it collected the conclusions of the conference "Zero tolerance against gender violence", organized by Mutua Fundación Madrid and Antena 3 news associating this increase to the use or "misuse" of technologies by this group.
It seems that we can intuit the combination (in addition to other factors, undoubtedly) to explain the increase in gender violence in young people: the use of technologies, specifically the smartphone-showsapp and the consumption of more violent pornography on the Internet on the Internet.
Many are the entities and the professionals who are in direct contact with the problem, and for many years they have been alerting of it.
The recent surveys and studies prove that the youth and adolescent population turns out., but forget sexual aggressions, both individual and collective.
As Lorente Acosta says, “society is willing to accept a certain degree of violence against women as well as accepting a certain number of homicides, traffic accidents or occupational accidents. It is not interested in deepening the problem, lest we reveal that historically our society has risen on the basis of control and submission of half of the population, women, and put an end to that it means questioning many of our structures and of our institutions as we know them and live them ” .
But if it cost us to do that exercise for the visibility of violence against the couple in adults, that same job for adolescent women is still very recent. Although we can find different guides, manuals, etc., From possibly specialized social services, or areas and/or women’s centers of the different municipal, regional and/or autonomous institutions, where reflections are made, recommendations to adolescents to detect being immersed in a relationship not only not only Equal but violent, we do not find any action protocol where adolescent women are the protagonists . There is no protocol in the health field for the prevention, detection and/or intervention of gender violence in adolescent couples .
The increase in rejection of sexism is in parallel growth with the recognition of having suffered gender violence or exercising it. And there is a clear experience within the so -called "equal mirage", in which adolescents, raised within democracy, with laws in which equality is a recognized right and the opposite is punished, they think that it has already already been achieved and that does not correspond to them or defend it, or detect the multiple inequalities and the violence of everyday life, although they also directly affect them to them.
But if something has to be clear about the feminism that comes, it is that we cannot give war for cattle while violence against women and prostitution, the number of women and girls that takes every year . And since adolescence the main risk of gender violence is the sexist mentality based on domain and submission, mentality that prevention must eradicate.
But it seems that campaigns such as “Tell him, there is a way out”, specifically directed to the adolescent female population, he has failed. They show the protagonists as naive poor who have not realized where they were involved and where their lack of self – esteem responsible for their situation. But where are they in these campaigns?.
When we know a new case of gender violence in the news (unfortunate. As we have analyzed, it is truly important for the creation of a new society free of gender violence. But how are we going to protect our teenagers and young people from gender violence if we don’t even name them, if we don’t even make them make them visible? . And if we go further in the analysis, how are we going to carry out this education, training, sensitization, if most teachers are not formed to carry it out?.
But if it is justice to ask for “mandatory initial training on coeducation, gender equality and gender violence ‘for teachers of all educational levels, either in the teaching career, the master’s degree of training necessary to teach classes, or Good for a permanent teacher training system. Our initial training lacks a gender perspective, and continues to pass in the new generations of teachers.
Another contributions that we want to include in this work has to do with the inclusion in the educational centers of equal plans, emphasizing sexism situations and sexist violence, to ensure that our objectives are realistic with a well -trained team, There would be more capacity to convince the need to elaborate an equal plan in the center to the entire educational community. In this sense, families charge a fundamental role. The need for training also extends to this socializing agent, which is equally powerful or more than school itself.
Being aware that classroom equality is not an easy objective in the short and medium term, for all the reluctance and obstacles that we find in the day -to -day basis, we know that the approach to generate different schools, free of sexist violence, respectful With the diversity, egalitarian and example of peaceful coexistence, it must become a priority objective of the entire educational community, for the benefit of all in the long term.
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