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(AI)This article talks about, gender stereotypes and preconceptions about men and women. This connects to Romeo and Juliet, because in the first scene Romeo and his friend are telling us that its a waste of the girls beauty if they dont want to have kids, and spread their beauty to the future.

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A gender stereotype is a generalized view or preconception about attributes or characteristics, or the roles that are or ought to be possessed by, or performed by, women and men.A gender stereotype is harmful when it limits women’s and men’s capacity to develop their personal abilities, pursue their professional careers and/or make choices about their lives.

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(AI) Families with good dynamics supports their children relationships. Romeo and Juliet dont have a good relationship with their family, because their family doesn’t accept their relationship. So they have to hide it, and it leads to death

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Family Commitment, Role Perceptions, Social Support, and Mutual Children in Remarriage

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Family commitment is a promising multidimensional phenomenon to consider in the study of family relationships, yet may be difficult for remarried families to achieve due to high levels of uncertai…

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(AI) The article talks about the risks that can exist with young love and how this love can affect adolescents later on in terms of educational experiences. It relates to Romeo and Juliet because they both have a lot of risks because their families do not like each other, as they are rivals. We also see these risks when Juliet wants to seek Romeo, even though he has been banished for killing Tybalt and is in hiding. This could potentially get her in lots of trouble, so it is a risk.

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(NN) In this article, they talk about how teenage behaviors can change when they go through puberty and their relationships change with different people in their life. They explain how teenagers may start being more independent from their parents and they spend more time with their friends. This relates to the book Romeo and Juliet because when they meet and fall in love, they talk a lot about how they will leave their family name behind just to be together. This shows that their loyalty to their family is less than their relationship with each other.

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Changes in a teen's physical and thinking development come with big changes in their relationships with family and friends. Family relationships are often reorganized during puberty. Teens want more independence and more emotional distance between them and their parents. A teen's focus often shifts to social interactions and friendships. This includes same-gender friends, same-gender groups of friends, and cross-gender groups of friends. Sexual maturity triggers interest in dating and sexual relationships.

Changes in relationship with self

During the teen years, a new understanding of one's self occurs. This may include changes in these self-concepts:

Independence

This means making decisions for one's self and acting on one's own thought processes and judgment. Teens start to learn to work out problems on their own. As teens develop more reasoning and intuitive abilities, they start to face new responsibilities. They start to enjoy their own thoughts and actions. Teens also start to have thoughts and fantasies about their future and adult life (for instance, college or job training, work, and marriage).

Identity

This is defined as a sense of self or one's personality. One of the key tasks of adolescence is to reach a sense of a personal identity and a secure sense of self. A teen gets comfortable with, and accepts, a more mature physical body. They also learn to use their own judgment, and make decisions on their own. As these things happen, the teen addresses their own problems and starts to develop a concept of themselves. Trouble developing a clear concept of self or identity occurs when a teen can't resolve struggles about who they are as a physical, sexual, and independent person.

Self-esteem

This is how you feel about yourself. Self-esteem is determined by answering the question "How much do I like myself?" With the start of adolescence, a decrease in self-esteem is somewhat common. This is due to the many body changes, new thoughts, and new ways of thinking about things. Teens are more thoughtful about who they are and who they want to be. They notice differences in the way they act and the way they think they should act. Once teens start thinking about their actions and characteristics, they are faced with how they judge themselves. Many teens place importance on attractiveness. When teens don't think they are attractive, it often causes poor self-esteem. Typically, self-esteem increases as teens develop a better sense of who they are.

Changes in peer relationships

Teens spend more time with friends. They report feeling more understood and accepted by their friends. Less and less time is spent with parents and other family members.

Close friendships tend to develop between teens with similar interests, social class, and ethnic backgrounds. While childhood friendships tend to be based on common activities, teen friendships expand to include similarities in attitudes, values, and shared activities. Teen friendships also tend to be based on educational interests. Especially for girls, close, intimate, self-disclosing conversations with friends help to explore identities and define one's sense of self. Conversations within these important friendships also help teens explore their sexuality and how they feel about it. Teen boys' friendships are often less intimate than those of girls. Boys are more likely to have a group of friends who confirm each other's worth through actions and deeds rather than personal sharing.

Changes in male-female relationships

The shift to male-female and sexual relationships is influenced by sexual interest and by social and cultural influences and expectations. Social and cultural expectations and behaviors in male-female or sexual relationships are learned from observations and practice. During adolescence, developmental tasks include struggles to gain control over sexual and aggressive urges. Discovering possible or actual love relationships also occurs. Sexual behaviors during adolescence may include impulsive behavior, a wide range of experimental interactions of mutual exploring, and eventually intercourse. Biological differences, and differences in the ways males and females socialize, set the stage for males and females to have different expectations of sexual and love relationships. These may influence sexual experiences and may also have consequences for later sexual behavior and partnerships. In time, having a mutually satisfying sexual partnership within a love relationship may be found.

Changes in family relationships

One of the developmental tasks of adolescence is to separate from one's family as one becomes an independent young adult. A part of this process is coming to terms with specific feelings about one's family. During adolescence, teens start to realize that their parents and key authority figures don't know everything or have solutions to all types of struggles. Some teen rebellion against parents is common and normal. Over time, disagreements often decrease. But relationships with mothers tend to change more than with fathers. As adolescents become more independent from their parents, they are more likely to turn to their peers for advice.

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Stanford Medicine Children's Health The teen years bring a focus on social interactions and friendships. This includes same-gender friends, same-gender groups of friends, and cross-gender groups of friends. In addition, sexual maturity triggers teens' interest in dating and sexual relationships.

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(RA) While this article talks about gender roles overall in a relationship, there was an emphasis regarding the expectations during sex. The article highlights how men often hold their standards for sex and pleasure very high, while women are demeaned for wanting sex, or, not wanting it. This relates to Romeo and Juliet because in one of the acts, Romeo talks about his crush as though she is a ‘waste’—simply because she wants to stay a virgin. His main focus is on the sexual aspect of their relationship.

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(RA) This article talks about a scientific study conducted to find out whether teenagers will prioritize their parents or friends. According to the heads of the study, in most cases, teenagers ended up prioritizing their parents. However, this varied based off whether they had a good relationship. This relates to Romeo and Juliet because Juliet seems to be in the minority—she prioritizes Romeo over family, knowing their families are rivals, even after he kills Tybalt.

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(RA) This article addresses adolescents romantic relationships and discusses their validity. Select scientists are finding that adolescent relationships and break-ups affect the involved peoples behavior, mental health, etc. This is relevant to Romeo and Juliet because we know their relationship later ends up taking a toll, as they commit suicide. However, we also see this earlier, when Juliet is in distress because Romeo murdered her cousin.

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(NN) In this article, they explain what gender roles are and how they can affect romantic relationships. They talk about how gender roles can negatively affect both genders in a relationship as they push people to fit in a specific box, and it can also cause violence or can decrease how women value themselves. This source relates to Romeo and Juliet because they portray negative gender roles since they think that they can't date a girl because she wants to stay celibate and not have kids. They look at women as just people to have kids and that can affect how they think about themselves.

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"Wrongful gender stereotyping is a frequent cause of discrimination against women and a contributing factor in violations of a vast array of rights such as the right to health, adequate standard of living, education, marriage and family relations, work, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, political participation and representation, effective remedy, and freedom from gender-based violence."[1]

What Does "Gender Stereotype" Mean?

"A gender stereotype is a generalized view or preconception about attributes or characteristics, or the roles that are or ought to be possessed by, or performed... [by people depending on their gender identity, gender expression and/or their sex assigned at birth] A gender stereotype is harmful when it limits... [people's]... capacity to develop their personal abilities, pursue their professional careers and make choices about their lives."[2]

Understanding Gender Stereotyping

Gender stereotypes are embedded in the society we live in. This can be seen in the media's representation of what it means to have a gender, the perpetuation of gendered roles in relationships and the continuation of gender-based violence.

This can have adverse affects on young people when they are maneuvering the challenges of growing up in a society that wants to categorise us as "female" or "male" and/or "woman" or "man." It's not that simple. Our world is not binary. There needs to be acknowledgement and understanding that gender is fluid and changing and it is not something that can be put in a box.

If we can think critically about gender stereotypes, young people can experience greater levels of wellness and safety.

Why Is This Important?

Gender stereotypes can have negative affects on our relationships, especially the relationships we have with ourselves and our intimate partners.

It is important to share information with young people to highlight and analyze how gender stereotypes can be harmful, in order to build critical thinking and awareness around this issue:

"Men who hold more traditional gender role ideologies... are more likely to perpetrate violence. Additionally, men who feel stress about their ability to conform to normative ideas regarding what it means to be a man are more likely to perpetrate inter-partner violence. Societies with greater gender inequities are more likely to teach young men a traditional gender role ideology and increase pressure that men act in traditionally masculine ways, including by perpetrating violence."[3]

"As sexualization of girls allow for objectification by boys and men - and increases self-objectification - it thereby diminishes or obliterates girls' and women's value and leads to continuing violence against them... Simply put, sexualization of ...[women]... and girls allow for... [boys and men's]... dominant position in society...feed[ing] into the continuation of violence against women and girls."[4]

"Trans people also experience higher rates of discrimination and harassment than their cisgender counterparts and, as a result, experience poorer mental health outcomes. They are also at a greater risk for suicide as they are twice as likely to think about and attempt suicide than LGB people."[5]

Additional Resources

Next Week

Keep an eye on the blog next week to learn more about communication skills and the importance of communication and building emotional intelligence.

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Dating Safe: How Gender Stereotypes Can Impact Our Relationships

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"Wrongful gender stereotyping is a frequent cause of discrimination against women and a contributing factor in violations of a vast array of rights such as the right to health, adequate standard of living, education, marriage and family relations, work, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, political participation and representation, effective remedy, and freedom from gender-based violence."[1]

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(NN) In this article, they talk about how the knowledge we gain about love and relationships and the experiences we have as teenagers can affect our relationships as adults. They explained that there were five types of teenage daters from low-risk to high-risk relationships depending on their dating behaviors. This source relates to the book Romeo and Juliet because they not only fall in love at a young age but they also get married very soon after which tells us their dating behavior. Using the descriptions of teenage daters from the article, we can see that they are at level 3/4 as they make rash dating decisions, which is more on the high-risk side.

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New research attempts to understand why teenagers get stuck in unhealthy relationship patterns.
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A new study published in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy explains how teenagers can form healthy or unhealthy 'templates' of romantic relationships that can perpetuate as they grow up.

The researchers, led by Kay Bradford and Brian Higginbotham of Utah State University and Jacqueline Miller of the University of New Mexico, believe that relationship education, much like sexual education, may be the key to helping adolescents build healthier current and future romantic relationships.

"Teen relationships are related to their well-being - and what they learn in relationships helps shape their relationships in adulthood," explains Bradford.

According to the authors, relationship education focuses on imparting research-based information to adolescents to help them make informed decisions in their relationships. This includes:

Improving communication skills

Establishing realistic relationship expectations

Encouraging healthy relationship 'pacing'

Discussing ways to reduce the risk of dating violence

"Outcomes of adolescent relationship education include the prevention of unhealthy relationship patterns, increased self-esteem, and stronger family cohesion," says Bradford.

Their study took inspiration from the 'four pillars of relationship cognition,' as identified in previous research. These are:

1. Romanticism - The idea that love can conquer all. Romantics may overlook the need for growing positive relationship skills.

2. Decision-making/pacing - This reflects the desire, or lack thereof, to get to know a potential partner before trusting and committing to them.

3. Refusal of unwanted physically intimate behavior - This is an essential skill for teenagers to learn so they stay true to their values and wait until they are physically and mentally ready for intimacy. Low self-esteem and a desire to preserve one's relationship can make it difficult for teens to say no to unwanted contact.

4. Control tolerance - An expectation of, or tolerance for, controlling behavior begins in adolescence. Tolerating control and manipulation can lead to psychological abuse and dating violence.

In the study, the researchers collected data from over 2000 students to understand how these four relationship cognitions mapped onto real-life teenage dating behavior. The study identified five types of teenage daters:

1. Low risk: This group includes students that have healthy romantic templates. These students were at lower risk on all four of the cognitions measured above.

2. Blindlove: Teenagers in this group were low risk in all dimensions apart from romanticism. They held extraordinary beliefs about love and its power to conquer all.

3. Sliders: This group describes teenagers who were less thoughtful about their decisions and therefore ended up 'sliding' into relationships with little thought.

4. Blindlove Sliders: This group represents a combination of the second and third groups. Teenagers in this category endorsed strong romantic beliefs and were prone to making rash dating decisions.

5. Control Tolerant: Teenagers in this group showed a lower likelihood of rejecting a partner that exhibited controlling behaviors.

The study produced two crucial findings:

1. Only 1 in 3 teenagers fell into the low-risk class of relationship cognitions. This means that a majority of teens fell into the riskier classes of relationship behavior, and thus may benefit from relationship education.

2. Teen boys tend to engage in more problematic relationship cognitions as they showed a higher endorsement of romanticism and 'sliding' tendencies compared to teen girls. Girls appeared to think in 'low risk' terms while boys seemed more likely to be manipulated and controlled.

According to the researchers, a parent or guardian can nudge their teenager's romantic relationship in a healthier direction by following two simple steps:

1. Discuss relationships and sex with teen boys too. Past research has pointed out that we tend to discuss sex and intimacy with our daughters more than our sons. To protect both teen boys and girls from unhealthy relationship dynamics, don't wait for 'the talk.' Instead, talk often with both.

2. Do not fear adolescent relationships. Thinking and talking about what should be valued in relationships helps teenagers build better relationships and sets a stronger overall foundation for their relationships as adults.

A full interview with the researchers can be found here: Do our teenage romantic relationships set the tone for our relationships as adults?

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Research Explains How Our Teenage 'Templates' Of Love Affect Us As Adults

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A new study published in the Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy explains how teenagers can form healthy or unhealthy 'templates' of romantic relationships that can perpetuate as they grow up.