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Oct 20, 2009
Casey Corcoran is with the Boston Public Health Commission and is the Director of Start Strong Initiative, a Peer Leadership Group of Boston teenagers working with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to build healthy teen relationships. An excerpt of Corcoran’s blog post, commenting on Chris Brown’s interview with CNN’s Larry King, follows. Read Corcoran’s entire post here.
“As adults who are committed to ending dating violence, we also have a responsibility. At the beginning of the interview, Larry King asked Chris Brown why he thought he was violent that night. Chris responded, ‘In relationships you lose your temper…things get heated. We’re young, nobody taught us how to control our emotions.’ We need to redouble our efforts to make sure the young people in our lives have the skills to engage in healthy relationships so that the story of Chris Brown becomes a lesson learned and not a lesson repeated. Chris Brown has a long road ahead to becoming a role-model, and in order for him to be successful, it is a road that we must walk with him.”
