Friends of the Basketball join the national campaign

This weekend, CAB senior teams participate in the ‘Dating with Fair Play’ campaign. As such, the professionals and professionals of the Friends of the Basketball will warm up for their games with t-shirts alluding to the theme. After heating, the athletes will deliver the duly signed T-shirts to the public present in the pavilion. The accession of the CAB follows the accession of the Portugese Basketball Federation, with the CAB showing immediate readiness to participate. The campaign will be presented by the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Equality, Teresa Morais, and the Secretary of State for Sport and Youth, Emídio Guerreiro. In statements to the Lusa agency, Teresa Morais explained that the campaign was born from the "need to send a strong message to boys and girls who accept violence and who are aggressors and aggressors in court in the sense that this is not a healthy path in their relationships and that they should not accept certain behaviors as normal". "We know, and it's not today, that dating violence is a worrying reality throughout the world and in Portugal as well," said Teresa Morais, recalling the studies conducted in the last decade, which show that "boys and girls have levels of acceptance of violent behaviors that are very worrying." Studies point to a "very significant percentage" of boys and girls who admit to having been victims (22.5%) or aggressors (25%) in their dating relationships. Many of these young people do not show awareness that some behaviours they practice, such as controlling mobile messages, preventing contact with friends or making obsessive scenes of jealousy, are forms of violence. For many young people, "these forms of violence are often confused as manifestations of interest and love," said Teresa Morais. Another worrying situation is that violence in dating relationships is "a predictor of marital violence", which tends to worsen over time. A recent study "makes it clear" that many of these boys and girls recognized having experienced violent situations in their own family, Teresa Morais said. For the ruler, this circuit has to be interrupted "as soon as possible", through the deepening of prevention and greater investment in education, which, in her opinion, "has always been the weakest point in public policies in recent decades". The campaign is concerned with pointing out various forms of violence and "calling them by names", leaving the message: "If someone attacks you, if someone humiliates you, if someone controls you, if someone isolates you from friends, it's not love, it's violence." It is with great pride that the senior CAB teams join this campaign in the hope that their involvement will help to raise awareness of this serious problem.