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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many have survived sexual assault![/quote]

I think this is something too many people overlook when talking about teen girls. The statistics are shocking. I only had a second to look up numbers, but RAINN says 1 in 9 girls has been sexually assaulted or sexually abused by an adult before age 18. And that’s just by *adults* — the number of assaults by other teens is much higher. [/quote]

Very true - and I believe it is worse with social media as photos and online shaming are often involved. 
Will look for recent story in WP about a Potomac teen who started asking other teens about their traumas and was staggered by the high level of sexual assaults experienced by teen girls. 
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[b]The crisis in American girlhood Stark findings on the pervasive sadness, suicidal thoughts and sexual violence endured by teen girls have jolted parents and the wider public[/b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/17/teen-girls-mental-health-crisis/

By Donna St. George, Katherine Reynolds Lewis and Lindsey Bever
 February 17, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. ET

When Sophie Nystuen created a website for teens who had experienced trauma, her idea was to give them space to write about the hurt they couldn’t share. The Brookline, Mass., 16-year-old received posts about drug use and suicide. But a majority wrote about sexual violence.
 “Every time I’ve tried, my throat feels like it’s closing, my lungs forget how to breathe,” wrote one anonymous poster. “I was sexually assaulted.”
 These expressions of inner crisis are just a glint of the startling data reported by federal researchers this week. Nearly 1 in 3 high school girls said they had considered suicide, a 60 percent rise in the past decade. Nearly 15 percent had been forced to have sex. About 6 in 10 girls were so persistently sad or hopeless they stopped regular activities.

The new report represents nothing short of a crisis in American girlhood. The findings have ramifications for a generation of young women who have endured an extraordinary level of sadness and sexual violence — and present uncharted territory for the health advocates, teachers, counselors and parents who are trying to help them.

The data comes from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from a nationally representative sample of students in public and private high schools. “[i]America’s teen girls are engulfed in a growing wave of sadness, violence and trauma[/i],” the CDC said. 
… Now a 17-year-old junior at a public high school in Potomac, Md., Zuba relies on therapy, medication, exercise and coping strategies. She started a mental health club at her high school to support classmates also struggling with depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
 At the lowest point of her depression, she said, she kept many secrets from her friends, parents and teachers because she felt stuck in her role: a cheerful high achiever who had it all together.
 “My mom’s like my best friend, and there’s no way she would have ever expected it,” Zuba said. “Teens are really good at hiding it, which is really sad.[/quote]

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