Report
Student Parents and Intimate Partner Violence (2023)
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month - a time to acknowledge survivors and be a voice for victims. Today, we're releasing "Student Parents and Intimate Partner Violence," a new report highlighting student parents' experiences with intimate partner violence. Informed by more than a decade of working with our Scholars, we highlight important research and advocate for higher education leaders and policymakers to invest in solutions that keep students safe and help families thrive.
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Highlights from the report include:
40 of the nearly 200 teen parents (20%) who participate in our Scholar Program in the D.C. metro region and Greater New Orleans area have disclosed that they “have witnessed or experienced domestic, family, or sexual violence” at some point in their lives.
Women between the ages of 18-24 are most commonly abused by an intimate partner, compared to other age and gender categories.
66% of IPV survivors say that the abuse they experienced disrupted their progress toward their educational goals, and 44% of IPV survivors dropped or had to retake one or more classes as a result of the abuse.
Witnessing IPV during childhood increases the likelihood that an individual will perpetuate or experience violence themselves. More than 15 million children in the United States live in homes in which IPV has happened at least once.
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In addition to providing direct, two-generation support to teen parents in college and their children as they prepare for kindergarten, Generation Hope advocates nationally for the needs of parenting college students and provides technical assistance to colleges and universities to increase their capacity to serve this population. For more information, please contact info@generationhope.org.