Leighton Meester has been campaigning to raise awareness of domestic violence. The "Gossip Girl" star - who walked down a runway in New York's Times Square - urged others to join her in donating a pair of her shoes to Marshall's Shop 'Til It Stops campaign.
Understanding the “conditioning” that occurs in abusive relationships is key to one’s survival in, and after, the relationship. Read on to discover 3 keys to over-ride the conditioning in abusive relationships.
Understanding the conditioning that occurs in abusive relationships is key to one’s survival in, and after, the relationship. Here are three keys to help you [...]
It is a misconception that only women suffer from abuse at the hands of men. Men too suffer from domestic violence and there is no much difference between how men and women experience the ordeal. If you are a man who goes through abuse, don't feel like you are the only one. There are other male...
Nearly 60 per cent of married women in Bihar are victims of domestic violence, the highest in India, according to a survey by the Union Health and Family Affairs Ministry.
An alarming 59 per cent of married women in Bihar suffer domestic violence with 50 per cent of wives enduring physical violence, 19 per cent sexual [...]
Kansas City resident Candace Vanice began her passion for helping victims of domestic violence by volunteering at a local shelter, teaching a physical fitness class. In so doing see saw first hand how much was still needed to support these victims.
When she took Landmark Education’s Self Expression & Leadership Program, she used her project as [...]
I really felt the need to write this because a fellow blogger is going through a situation where a man is harassing her and she has done the right thing by following up with the police, but I want people to understand just how bad domestic violence truly is.I am the way I am because I was in an extremely abusive relationship for five years. The man who abused me so severely was the white man I cho
A clearer picture of Adkisson is emerging from the sad community of Knoxville, where he walked into a Unitarian church firing a semi-automatic shotgun, killing two and critically injuring 2 more. Four more remain hospitalized.
He has a history of domestic violence and his ex-wife belonged to the church years ago. He had two DWIs, and a book shelf full of hate literature. He couldn't find a job a
When you live with an abuser, battering happens from the outside in and from the inside out. And it’s not surprising. Read on to see why and what you can do to ease the pain.
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From AILA
An immigration judge for the Orlando, Florida Immigration Court finds that a victim of domestic violence merits a grant of asylum on humanitarian grounds. The social group is defined as “Honduran women in intimate relationships who are unable to leave the relationship.” Decision courtesy of John Ovink.
AILA Doc. No. 08062061.
The New Zealand government has decided on a get tough policy with men who are guilty of domestic violence. Police are now authorized to hand out on-the-spot protection orders when they are called to a domestic violence incident. Alleged offenders could be removed from their homes for up to 72 hours under the changes announced [...]
More on the topic of domestic violence. This time it is Patrick Stewart talking about his firsthand experience of violence against his mother. Stewart is a great speaker and this is an honest, sober monologue on the topic.
Watch out. This video is so disturbing that I hesitated to post it, but it has an excellent, needed message. We wouldn't let our young kids watch it though. I want to comment on this video but it will take me a while to work up a comment. What do y'all think?
Domestic violence can happen to men, not only to women, according to Group Health research in the June American Journal of Preventive Medicine. "Domestic violence in men is under-studied and often hidden-much as it was in women 10 years ago," said study leader Robert J. Reid, MD, PhD, an associate investigator at the Group Health Center for Health Studies. "We want abused men to know they're not a
Domestic violence is alive and well today in the U.S. where women have civil liberties. It most certainly reigns supreme in countries where women have no rights. So it is a world-wide problem and the bad news is it isn't going to go away anytime soon. We could argue that many women don't know any better that verbal and physical abuse is just the way things are: witness the sect in Texas recentl
Burning Bed was a movie that started to wake people up when it came to matters of domestic violence. Its a story of a women that tried to escape many times, and was failed by the system, family and was left with no real support system.Domestic violence or Domestic Abuse is more than hitting. I have heard to many times Pastors telling women that until he hits you you must not separate.I have to w
What we see is a boil of social problems taking place in populations that are used, abused, and discarded in whatever way suits the powerful interests at the helm. This would just be paranoia, if it weren't for the extensive documentation of these trends people like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, and reporting by people like Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.
The Owl's Song: Domestic Violence Part II: A PrayerPrayer for All Who Are Abusedby Vienna Cobb AndersonYou chose, O loving God,to enter this world quietly, humbly, and as an outcast.Hear our prayerson behalf of all who are abused.For children,who suffer at the handsof parents whom they trust and love;For spouses,beaten and destroyedby the very onewho promised to loveand to cherish them forever
The Owl's Song: Domestic Violence: the Story of a DancerStory of a dancer named Eva. She was a victim of domestic violence, and another example of how her pastor told her:What was the pastor's counsel? (He told me this with tears in his eyes.) He had told her to be more submissive. He told her to obey her husband and to strive to please him in every way. He told her that if she did what the B
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Dennis Rodman was arrested last night on suspicion of felony domestic battery.
The former NBA star was arrested at 11:00 PM at a Century City hotel and was released at 4:16 this morning on $50,000 bail, reports TMZ.com.
Hotel security got involved and called LAPD, who responded and made the arrest.
Citing law enforcement sources, TMZ says [...]
Dennis Rodman has been arrested in Los Angeles for domestic violence.
The former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player was arrested late last night following an instance between Rodman and his girlfriend that reportedly occured a hotel in Century City, a suburb of Los Angeles neighboring Beverly Hills.
Dennis Rodman was reportedly charged with a felony for alleged [...]
I had an email sent to me by a poster that was having problems with her blogger/google account, and asked me to mention an article she had written.Pastors, for the most part, have no concept of domestic violence issues. I posted a report I wrote on a pastor's training seminar led by Carol J. Adams: A PASTOR’S ROLE IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, filed in the DOMESTIC VIOLENCE category on my blogsite, www.
This is our TOOL FOR TUESDAY!Stop the Abuse had an article recently on a device that could call the police in a moments notice if this is something that you need!The poster has an offer at the end if you would like to check into the system for you and your family.I've recently learned that there's a national company ( Phillips Lifeline -- 1-800-543-3546) that specializes in home alert systems. Th
In a new survey from Indonesia, the issue of domestic violence emerged as a major source of concern to women. Other female issues were health care, lack of formal education, limited legal protection and low income. The survey was conducted by the Public Interest Research and Advocacy Center and focused on the lives of middle-class [...]
Issues of mental illness, cognitive disabilities, personality disorders, unemployment, poverty, gender, politics, the legal system, and education loom large in DV, calling for a biopsychosocial perspective. What better place, then, than BrainBlogger.com for a look at the subject? I'll start with a very good reason for primary care providers to screen for DV, and an initial look at gender issues.
Upon hearing of Cedrick Wilson’s most recent domestic dispute, I assumed Wilson would be cut and Harrison would stay on the team. I had a slightly more cynical logic (Wilson is a spare-parts WR and Harrison is a Pro Bowler), than that professed by Dan Rooney in today’s Post Gazette.
Here is a link [...]
It is a myth that men are not abused by female partners. Studies show that one out of six men are victims of an abusive relationship. As a survivor of abuse, my mission is to create more awareness of this problem. In this article I make some drastic suggestions on ways to eliminate this [...]
Domestic Violence Remains Major Concern:
By Sasha L. Lightbourne -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Reported domestic disputes decreased from 1,361 cases in 2006 to 1,138 cases in 2007, according to statistic released by the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
However, according to a local psychologist, those numbers may not be a "true reflection" of cases in The Bahamas.
"Domestic violence has been a problem and continues to be a problem and confronts us on a daily basis," said Dr. Sandra Dean-Patterson, who spoke to the Bahama Journal recently.
"Persons live with violent situations daily. The police will tell you and the hospitals will tell you that on a daily basis they see the victims of this violence."
Dr. Patterson said much needs to be done to address domestic violence in The Bahamas.
"We will neve
I'm a survior of Domestic Violence.My last LTR [Long Term Relationship] was good and bad. He and I owned our own business. We traveled around the SE USA. We took trips to Mexico and Costa Rica for business and pleasure. We'd stay for a month or two at each place we lived. We sold Bromeliads and ended up moving down to Florida. We even was able to do Epcot's Flower and Garden Show, Silver Dollar City's Craftsman Fest, Dollywood's Craft Fest, and sold our product to Bush Gardens in Tampa Bay. Was a very exciting life. I loved every minute of it. Our professional relationship was beautiful. We were the greatest team.At home, things were different. Verbal, spiritual, physical, mental and emotional abuse was frequent by him. One of our disagreements turned more physical than ever - He hit me so
Q. What are legal remedies for domestic violence?
A. State legislatures and courts have been paying increasing attention to domestic violence. Many states have elaborate laws designed to protect spouses from domestic violence by their spouses or other family members. In many states, protection also is available for people in dating relationships that have become abusive. A common remedy is for a
Admittedly, the title of this entry was bitten from an ifeminists.com article also called Domestic Violence Is Not A Gender Issue by Erin Pizzy. However, the info here is unique and cites many different references.
For over a decade feminists have been spreading false stats and one-sided theories about domestic violence being perpetrated almost always by males, with females being the victims nearly every time. In light of this information on gender-based violence, Senator Joseph Biden drafted the "Violence Against Women Act" also known as VAWA. This was voted and passed into law, has received billions of dollars of funding, and the National Network To End Domestic Violence has still asked for more and were not happy to be turned down.
Take for example the web site stopvaw.org which has an article called Adapting the Duluth Model for training law enforcement and counselors. The problem with this training model is that it takes on the presumption that battering is essentially caused only
Every day it seems we hear of another case of domestic violence, some with very tragic endings. It seems the numbers only increase even with increased education. Why is it so many victims of domestic violence never leave? What needs to happen to break the cycle of domestic violence.Victims of domestic violence live in a love hate relationship that seems to continue. There are absolutely no excuses for one partner to inflict pain or suffering on another partner, or any human being for that matter. Yet domestic numbers continue to grow. Are you a victim of domestic violence. Do you live in fear of the next kick, the next punch, the next slap. How long will you be able to continue making excuses for horrible bruises or broken bones? How long before you don’t have to worry about making excuses because you are dead? You need to get out now! Seek help! Break the cycle of domestic violence.Yes, there is no question that an abuser has their weak moments when they are loveable and often they
A recent issue of the International Quarterly of Community Health Education (Volume 25) presents the results of a cross sectional study designed to determine how prevalent intimate partner violence was among women of child-bearing age in a migrant community in southwest Nigeria. The women in the study ranged in age from 15 to 49 years and structured questionnaires were given in the local language to learn about attitudes toward domestic violence in seven hypothetical situations as well as their personal experiences with violence. Of the women surveyed, 87% reported having experienced intimate partner violence at some point in their lives while 20% reported having experienced it in the preceding 12 months. In examining attitudes towards intimate partner violence. 79.5% of the survey respondents believed that wife beating was justified in at least one of the seven hypothetical situations that were presented. Respondents who were not living with a
If only he had followed his own advice in his hit song, "Rhythm of the Night," and danced until the morning light to forget about the worries on his mind, he'd not be in all this trouble. But NO! He had to go beat on someone.
The Daily Mail featured a story about an anaesthetist who hit his wife 24 times but was spared jail. The vicious assault on Carol Mcewan followed regular verbal and physical abuse during their seven-year marriage. He walked away from court with a £500 fine.One in four women experience domestic violence at some point in their lifetimes and two women are killed each week in England and Wales as a result.The General Medical Council will now hold a disciplinary hearing Brown could be suspended or struck off. Knowing the General Medical Council's stance in other domestic violence cases he will probably be given a wrap on the wrists and told to be a good boy in the future.My advice to Carol - divorce him and leave.Related LinkWomen's Aid.
This lack of basic transportation is a crippling problem for the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), formed in 1998 to deal with the rising number of cases involving women and children in domestic settings. One in three Ghanaian women experiences some form of domestic violence, according to a 1999 study by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre.
Tapete colocado às portas de casas para comunicar a violência doméstica e criar uma consciência para lutar contra a mesma.Carpet placed at doors in order to communicate domestic violence and create an awareness to fight against it.
The violence that erupted after Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France has subsided (free registration required) without reaching nearly the level of unrest seen in Paris in 2005.
Calculated in today’s dollars, the minimum wage was highest in 1968, hovering just over $9 an hour. Another reason why the current minimum wage is shameful.
Prosecutors in New York (free registration required) are using digital photography to help prosecute more cases of domestic violence and convict more offenders.
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Modern Drunkard’s profiles Andre the Giant. Apparently this guy drank 119 beers in 6 hours. That’s one beer every 3 minutes, non-stop. Good lord!
Ever wanted to make a Jackson Pollock splatter painting but lacked the guts to actually splatter paint all over your house? This one is for you.
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While US citizens pay on average 50% more for their healthcare than Canadians do under their national healthcare system, the Canadian system beats the US s
This past Saturday I attended a conference at a local College of Law exploring whether or not domestic violence should be prosecuted as a hate crime. Most of the attendees were law students and lawyers and only one other social-worker "type". I felt we were able to bring a different perspective to how they were looking at current laws in the state of Colorado and how to potentially word new bills. Coming from California, I had no idea about criminalized domestic violence. I learned about that working with some of my single-parent participants when I accompanied them to their civil and criminal cases as witnesses. They were witnesses against their ex-husbands and ex-boyfriends; they were not there on the prosecuting side because of our laws. A lot of discussion on this topic on Saturday revolved around how the criminalization caused more problems than it helped.The original intention was to make the penalties for domestic violence more stringent and to ensure that the perpetrators did
Note: I’ve been posting these posters on Friday’s sans commentary in hope’s that it would create a discussion. The only person that’s engaged me in discussion about it has been my mother.
She pointed out that all the women in the pictures look like actresses/models/famous people (which they are), and that it doesn’t seem as real as it does just dressing up. In other words she wondered if these pictures actually force people to think about the reality of domestic violence, or instead make it seem even more fictitious.
I’m curious to know others thoughts. Do these images cause you to think about the reality of domestic violence? Are they just one of the posts you breeze past without much of a thought?
ACT is the new campaign brand of Women's Aid:
admit domestic violence is a problem, call it by its name, talk to someone.
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{mosgoogle right}A record number of 20,992 cases of domestic violence were reported to police across the nation last year, the National Police Agency (NPA) has announced.The figure increased by 15.1 percent from 2006 and marked the highest number since the Anti-Domestic Violence Law took effect in 2001."Domestic violence has become recognized as a social problem, and the victims have come to consult with police," said a representative of the NPA.
{mosgoogle right}Gender disorder, domestic violence, love triangles -- "Last Friends," a drama series currently showing on Fuji TV, has got it all. But there's something about Masami Nagasawa's performance in the lead female role of Michiru, a young woman caught in a trap of domestic violence that she can't escape, that has got this old man fired up.I'd say this show is probably attracting decent
