Learn The Signs Of Domestic Violence – Know If You Are A Victim

Unfortunately, domestic violence is found everywhere. People in general don’t want to believe that domestic violence happens in their neighborhood, but it does.
The fact is domestic violence can and does happen in all communities, in all income and education levels, with victims and perpetrators representing a diverse cross-section of society.
Domestic violence can happen to [...]

Texas Victims of Domestic Violence: 111 Women Were Killed In 2009, 38%…

According to a new report released by the Texas Council on Family Violence and compiled from data from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas law enforcement agencies and media reports, 111 women in the state were killed by an intimate partner in 2009.
The report lists the victims’ names and gives brief accounts of their [...]

Murdered Woman’s Mom Turns Pain Into Crusade For Prevention of Domestic Violence.

LAFAYETTE — The portrait of Abigail Robertson on the website abbysvoice.com does not speak of tragedy.
But the dates below the picture, Dec. 10, 1986-Dec. 11, 2007, hint at a disturbing tale.
Abigail was murdered the day after she turned 21 after attempting to untangle from an abusive relationship with Marcus Hightower, 26, the man later convicted [...]

The Problem of Domestic Violence

The Problem of Domestic Violence
On the 3rd of November 2009, while vacillating on when to commence a series of articles on Domestic Violence, I got a frantic call from a patient who identified herself and asked if I had X-Ray facility [...]

Why Worship Celebs Who Beat Women?

The National Coalition against Domestic Violence reports that approximately 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year and that one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. In some cases, as recently illustrated by a disgruntled man in New Mexico going to a fiber optics [...]

The Problem of Domestic Violence

The Problem of Domestic Violence
On the 3rd of November 2009, while vacillating on when to commence a series of articles on Domestic Violence, I got a frantic call from a patient who identified herself and asked if I had X-Ray facility [...]

Domestic Violence Murders Show Patterns

Two women this week have allegedly been killed by an intimate partner. Domestic violence experts weigh in on early signs and how it can go undetected.
Violence almost always escalates. It’s a rule that domestic violence experts say applies to this week’s brutal female murders. The accused killers of both Joyce Mann and Yeardley Love are [...]

Ohio Report – Domestic Violence Prevalent

Teenage girls are more likely to suffer from dating violence than to become pregnant or be injured in a traffic accident.
Adult women are more likely to be the victims of physical abuse from an intimate partner than to be diagnosed with cancer in the same year or injured in a motor vehicle crash.
Seniors are only [...]

Ending The Cycle of Domestic Abuse

Women bring diversity to the world and, more importantly, life. They feel, they love, they nurture, and they provide for the people they love most.
Unfortunately, every day they are raped, abused and killed, mostly by their intimate partners.
According to the U.S. Department of Peace, 1.5 million women are raped each year. There are 5.3 million [...]

Spousal Emotional Abuse – How To Break The Cycle Of Emotional Psychological Abuse

Emotional psychological abuse from your intimate partner is as clear as the day is long when on the receiving end. But for the bystanders, it’s ambiguous.
Some people will even tell you that when you are the abused, on some level, you become a bystander. It is as though you take yourself out of the line [...]

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