To think the “red flag” documentaries should be played at school

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If you have a DD, it could be a good idea to get her to sit down and watch these documentaries on BBC iPlayer about red flags of abusive men. From experience, if you’re uneducated, you won’t know you’re knee deep in abuse until it is too late.
They should play these clips in school to educate young ladies, and even young men (although these clips are about abusive men).

Huge well done to the ladies on the documentary for speaking out, pressing charges and filming a doc to help others.

Or parents could parent and discuss these things at home.

That's assuming the young people have parents that treat each other with respect and that one of them isn't abusing the other. There is a lot to be said about having parents as decent role models.

How many times have we read about abusive relationships on here from women who haven't had a decent relationship modelled to them by parents? Far too many. These women don't know how to recognise red flags because that is their norm.

I think it starts at home at the most important factor is how you see your mother being treated by your father.

I agree with this ^^ @Thepeopleversuswork

It should be taught in a professional setting such as school so yes I agree with the poster.

I would 100% support this. I have 2 teenagers daughters and I am always giving advice even about men. Young Girls / women are naive and do not know the things we older ladies do but we learnt the hard way. As the schools are unlikely to start doing this you can make sure your daughters watch this at home.

So you think they shouldn’t learn about the basics of sex and relationships in primary school but they should learn about abusive relationships?? How could they possibly grasp that if they don’t even know what sex is?!

Were you ok with them learning about inappropriate things like sex at the primary school age?

It isn't inappropriate to learn about sex in primary school

I know… utterly bizarre

This is year 6 the Op is talking about
The next year heading off to secondary school
a basic biology lesson about sex is absolutely the right thing

whereas the Op wants to skip the biology lesson and go straight to a red flag documentary (where presumably sex features!)

I think your phrasing was unfortunate OP because people have taken it to mean low levels of general education predispose women to abuse (which in fairness, they do as education increases options and power and lack of increases vulnerability) however, I think what you're saying is uneducated on the red flags of abuse?
I agree with you that it's important for young people to be aware. I also think the school environment is a good place for this to happen rather than relying on the varying knowledge of individual parents.
I also agree that it's a serious problem that has been referred to as an epidemic and, as I heard Jess Philips say when she was responsible for this area, it's 'trending young'. So I'm supportive of preventative measures.
I haven't seen these documentaries so can't comment on whether they're the best tools. But I definitely support the principle.