did you forget your yellow bird?

Just after he beat Rihanna in 2009, the Boston Public Health Commission’s Start Strong Initiative polled teens in Boston to see how they felt about the incident.“Close to 50 percent of the young people we surveyed thought that Rihanna was actually responsible for the incident,” says Casey Corcoran, the former director of Start Strong who led the poll. “They were blaming her.”

I’m still just as upset as the day I learned he beat up his girlfriend. Why? Because it’s a high profile incident that highlights just how far we still need to go in terms of teaching young people how to be in healthy romantic relationships in their teenage years.