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Article: Mary Kay Inc. and Break the Cycle Launch Initiative to Stop Teen Dating Violence.
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- Education Letter
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- February 18, 2009
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In support of National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week and the companyEs ongoing commitment to end domestic violence, Mary Kay Inc. is launching a national lobbying for good initiative. Together with non-profit partner Break the Cycle and its independent sales force, Mary Kay Inc. will encourage legislators across the United State to propose laws requiring healthy relationship education in schools. According to statistics provided by Break the Cycle, as many as one in three teens will experience abuse in a dating relationship; and, one in four eighth and ninth grade students reported being victims of dating violence in a recent report by the Family ...