INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office wants to give teens the tools to stand up to violence in their relationships.
“The way they learn how to date now and the types of behaviors that they have in these teen dating relationships, they take those relationship tendencies into their adult relationships,” Deputy Prosecutor Valerie Harvey said. “If they don’t figure out a way to correct those behaviors, they’re just going to repeat those types of behaviors as they become adults.”
Harvey visits schools and youth organizations across the county to teach kids and parents how to recognize the signs of problem relationships.
Vic Ryckaert/WRTV “A lot of red flags, specifically with our youth today, involve the phones,” Harvey said. “So when you have a partner who is trying to have access to your phone; when they are trying to get your password; when they want to put a location on you; that is a super red flag that you may be in a relationship that you need to think twice about.”