According to a survey carried out last year by the Ministry of Education under its project to assess intimate partner violence on campus, a quarter of junior high school students and nearly half of senior high school students in Taiwan have gone on a romantic date. Among junior high school students who have dating experience, the average age for falling in love for the first time is 12.6 years old. In addition, 80 percent of students in junior high schools, high schools and colleges have been emotionally abused by their partners.
In a news conference on June 23, the Modern Women’s Foundation said that emotional abuse includes behaviors such as deliberately provoking jealousy in a partner by acting intimately or doing other things with another member of the opposite sex, always demanding to know where the partner is or harassing the partner through phone calls, text messages, chat apps or e-mail messages. In more serious cases, the abuser may guilt-trip his or her partner through self-harm or even check or restrict the partner’s use of phone, text messages, chat apps or e-mail. Many common emotionally abusive behaviors are equivalent to emotional blackmail, stalking, harassment or limiting the freedom of others, yet today’s education has been unable to teach children how to deal with conflicts in relationships.
To reduce intimate partner violence, the Modern Women’s Foundation, in conjunction with art and literature groups, has planned art and literature workshops that will guide teenagers to explore themselves and in the process learn love and respect. Project convener Wang Hsuan, who has been awarded the Golden Bell Award for Best Actress, says that although learning new things always requires practice, when it comes to love there has never been an opportunity to be taught or get any practice. Wang therefore recruited teachers from various art disciplines and launched this series of workshops in drama, dance musicals, stand-up comedy and fine arts that together form a training program to explore the idea of love.(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY TU YU-AN)
Photo courtesy of the Modern Women’s Foundation
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根據教育部去年的「建構校園親密關係暴力事件評估工具計畫」調查指出，我國國中約有四分之一、高中職約近半數的學生有過約會經驗，其中國中生的初次戀愛平均年齡為十二點六歲，且國中、高中職及大專的學生有超過八成曾遭受伴侶精神暴力。
現代婦女基金會六月二十三日於記者會中表示，精神暴力包括「故意和其他異性做一些事情、或有親密動作來讓伴侶感到嫉妒」、「要伴侶不論去哪裡都要向他／她報告」，或「利用電話、簡訊、通訊軟體或電子郵件騷擾」等。更嚴重者包括「用自殘的方式來讓伴侶內疚」，甚至「檢查或限制伴侶使用電話、簡訊、通訊軟體或電子郵件」。許多常見的精神暴力行為已等同情感勒索、跟蹤騷擾或是剝奪他人自由，但現今教育卻無法教導孩子如何面對這些情感衝突。
現代婦女基金會結合藝文團體，共同籌畫藝文工作坊，盼能引導青少年探索自我並從中學習愛與尊重，以減少未來親密暴力的發生。擔任計畫召集人的金鐘影后王琄表示，學習新的事物都需要練習，但對於愛情卻從來沒有機會被教導與練習，因此召集了藝術領域的老師，開設戲劇、歌舞、脫口秀、美術等一系列的工作坊，展開探討「愛情」的訓練計劃。（自由時報記者楊綿傑）
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