WAG Tanya Bardsley vows to teach footballer sons importance of respect towards women from a young age

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The Real Housewives of Cheshire star Tanya Bardsley has vowed to teach her young sons the importance of respect towards women in a powerful message.

The wife of Burnley FC and former Manchester United footballer Phil Bardsley have three boys Rocco, 12, Renz, eight, and Ralphi, five.

And Tanya has a 20-year-old daughter Gabriella from a previous relationship. READ MORE: Molly-Mae to speak out about her health battle to help other girls Tanya, 40, who recently announced that she was stepping down from the hit ITVBe reality show Real Housewives after six years after suffering with stress and battling with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, took to her Instagram to say she's going to do everything she can to educate their boys. "I heard this morning that 1.6m women in this country have been victims of domestic abuse," she told her 575,000 followers. "Absolutely awful and even more frightening as a mother of a daughter my Gabriella it made me feel physically sick, as a adult woman it’s been causing me panic all day." She continued: "More than ever I’m going to try and do everything I can to educate our boys on the importance of respect towards women from a young age so that none of them ever add to these awful statistics in the future. "I think we all as parents have a responsibility to teach our boys." And in a video shared with her message she asked Manchester City starlet Renz: "Renz, what do we treat woman and girls with?" And he replied: "Respect." In October Tanya shared some incredible family news as she revealed eldest son Rocco had signed a new contract with Stoke City FC.

Taking to Instagram to share a video of the proud moment, Tanya wrote: “What a day for the Bardo boys my @rocco_bardo_26 has just signed