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Is online dating still the best way to meet people? The Globe wants to hear how you’re dating

Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first. If you get Global News from Instagram or Facebook - that will be changing. Find out how you can still connect with us. This article is more than 8 years old and some information may not be up to date. Some PlentyOfFish numbers:. Users: million worldwide for PlentyOfFish, with four million active every month. Online dating: A Leger Marketing survey found 36 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34 use online dating. Mobile: Sixty per cent of online daters in the United States were using only mobile devices as of July , up 25 per cent from the year before according to research firm ComScore.

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The Juristat article released today, titled " Dating violence against teens aged 15 to 17 in Canada, to ," uses self-reported data from the Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces and police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey to analyze the experiences, characteristics and consequences of teen dating violence. For the purposes of this study, dating violence includes criminal acts such as physical and sexual violence, as well as acts that may not be considered criminal, such as emotional abuse. Because dating violence often goes unreported to polic e—a nd because not all abusive behaviours meet the criminal threshol d—p resenting both self-reported and police-reported data allows for the most complete picture of teen dating violence in Canada. Although the majority of teen dating violence is not reported to authorities, police-reported data show that from to , there were victims of criminal dating violence per , people aged 15 to In , the rate of police-reported dating violence was about nine times higher for teenage girls victims per , population than boys Teens aged 15 to 17 who were victimized by a dating partner had higher police-reported rates 60 victims per , population of sexual violence than for other violent offences in The rate of sexual violence in dating relationships among teens of this age was also higher than the rate among those aged 18 to 24 43 , and those aged 25 and older 9.

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Looking for love online? New study shows mixed experiences

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