Adolescents have to deal with a greater risk of gender violence being perpetrated on them compared to more adult ages. This is confirmed by the study on the situation of violence against women in adolescence in Spain, prepared by the Government Delegation against Gender Violence. This publication exemplifies how the percentages of being a victim increase with youth in all types of gender violence. Above all, in control psychological violence, since 20% of adolescents between 16 and 17 have suffered it, a figure that decreases as age increases.
“Any act of violence based on gender, which implies or may imply for women damage or suffering of a physical, sexual, psychological or economic nature.” In this way, gender violence was defined by the Council of Europe convention on the Prevention of and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, signed in 2011 and ratified by Spain in 2014. To which is added: “including threats to carry out such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, in public or private life”.
The psychologist Beatriz Piñas warns of the importance of intervening at an early age in cases of gender violence in adolescents, as well as the fact that mothers and fathers play a decisive role. Although this abuse can manifest itself in different ways, there are a series of signs that can help parents to detect this type of case.
