An increasing number of teenage girls are experiencing physical violence in dating relationships, prompting experts to hold seminars on violence prevention, according to officials of a citizens’ group.
DV Boshi Nagasaki, a Nagasaki-based nonprofit group, found in a 2004 survey of 1,332 high school girls in Nagasaki Prefecture that 139 of them had been in abusive relationships.
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