Within one month against gender violence, the Department of Equality has organized a series of workshops for students aged 13 to 15 years, aimed at preventing toxic romantic relationships, based on gender violence.
Throughout the month, the Equal agent of the City of Jumilla, Paquita Ruiz, will give a total of 14 lectures and workshop to students of 3 º ESO of the four secondary schools in the town.
Interventions will work from the concept of romantic love, and how this helps to perpetuate inequalities in future relationships, to differential socialization, and how people are educated differently based on their sex in the face of relationships.
In practical cases arise talks with those measured young people's reactions to situations, sentimental, and are taught to distinguish one sound from a toxic relationship, understood as the germ of the later violence.
Also, teens learn how certain actions or situations that usually understood as normal, are also included within the various expressions of violence.
"Phrases like" if you come to my girlfriend head bust "or" when you have a girlfriend you have to have friends carefully, "are some of the expressions that perpetuate inequality system, based on toxic relationships.'s Why becomes so necessary to intervene with these age groups, in order to prevent future behaviors of domestic violence, "Ruiz explained about Paquita.
The workshops will end on November 29 with the visit of some young people who partake in them, the radio program "Equal Waves", which will air from 11:00 to 12:00 in the local radio station 107.7 FM.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla