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Parenting programmes reduce violence against teenage girls by over 60%

3+ hour, 29+ min ago  (260+ words) A University of Cape Town (UCT) study in collaboration with the University of Oxford has found that parenting programmes, when delivered at scale, cut physical abuse against adolescent girls by 65% and emotional abuse by 59%. The study was conducted in eight…...