High school students were long restricted by parents and schools when it came to dating, but a new survey shows that more than one-third of female high school students are now prevented from dating by their boyfriends.
The nonprofit organization against domestic violence, Women's Net Kobe, interviewed 2,600 female and 1,800 male high school students over two years and found that many high school relationships involved violence, coercion and restrictions.
In the survey, 33 percent of female high school students said their boyfriends imposed restrictions on them. These restrictions included boyfriends' demanding they not go out with other friends, limiting the times they could go out and erasing contacts and numbers from their cellphones. The survey also found that 27 percent of the female students said they suffered psychological violence such as verbal abuse.
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