Domestic abuse prevention programmes able to have a positive impact on children's attitudes toward violence

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"A team of researchers has shown that domestic abuse prevention programmes are able to have a positive impact on secondary school children's attitudes to violence....

"So the challenge is to encourage governments to incorporate this across the mainstream curriculum and build a workable infrastructure at every secondary school-age year. "Rather than confining relationship education to special sessions that are tangential to the assessed curriculum, geography or maths, for example, could tackle domestic abuse prevalence in different parts of the world, and the experience of victims could be appropriate for literature or even music classes...."

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-domestic-abuse-programmes-positive-impact.html

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