Hanging Out or Hooking Up: - Futures Without Violence
Hanging Out or Hooking Up: - Futures Without Violence
Hanging Out or Hooking Up: - Futures Without Violence
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<strong>Hanging</strong> <strong>Out</strong> <strong>or</strong> <strong>Hooking</strong> <strong>Up</strong>: Clinical Guidelines on<br />
Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse<br />
“He really wanted the baby… he always said, ‘If<br />
I find out you have an ab<strong>or</strong>tion… I’m gonna kill<br />
you,’ and so I really was f<strong>or</strong>ced into having my<br />
son. I didn’t want to... I just got into [college] on<br />
a full scholarship, I just found out, I wanted to go<br />
to college and didn’t want to have a baby but I was<br />
really scared. I was scared of him.” 5<br />
8 FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE<br />
-26 year old female<br />
Pregnancy Pressure and Coercion<br />
Pregnancy pressure involves behavi<strong>or</strong>s that are intended to pressure a female partner to become<br />
pregnant when she does not wish to become pregnant. Pregnancy coercion involves coercive<br />
behavi<strong>or</strong>s such as threats <strong>or</strong> acts of violence if she does not comply with her partner’s wishes<br />
regarding the decision of whether to terminate <strong>or</strong> continue a pregnancy. Examples of pregnancy<br />
pressure and coercion include:<br />
• Threatening to leave a partner if she does not become pregnant<br />
• Threatening to hurt a partner who does not agree to become pregnant<br />
• F<strong>or</strong>cing a female partner to carry to term against her wishes through threats <strong>or</strong> acts of violence<br />
• F<strong>or</strong>cing a female partner to terminate a pregnancy when she does not want to<br />
• Injuring a female partner in a way that she may have a miscarriage<br />
Sexual Coercion<br />
All experiences of sexual violence, including rape, impact sexual and reproductive health. Over the<br />
past twenty years, the healthcare field has made tremendous strides in responding to sexual assault,<br />
“I’m not gonna say he raped me, he didn’t<br />
use f<strong>or</strong>ce, but I would be like, ‘No’ and then<br />
next thing, he pushes me to the bedroom,<br />
and I’m like ‘I don’t want to do anything’<br />
and then we ended up doing it, and I was<br />
crying like a baby and he still did it. And<br />
then after that he got up, took his shower,<br />
and I just stayed there like shock.” 6
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