Young Boys Are Told to Slap a Girl in This Remarkable PSA About Domestic Violence

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"What happens when you put a girl in front of a boy and ask him to slap her?"

Domestic abuse is a longtime problem in Italy. A 2012 United Nations report called it "the most pervasive form of violence" in the country. Former Prime Minister Enrico Letta called it femicide—the killing of women at the hands of current or former lovers.

Online Italian newspaper Fanpage.it addresses domestic violence in the video below, but it features an unlikely group of people—children.

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