Sentences with phrase «other battered women»

Other battered women I have interviewed have had somewhat better experiences.

Not exact matches

Battered women also seek solutions through the legal field or their religious community, but discover that others either do not detect the touch of a bleeding woman, or offer them only contempt, misunderstanding, indifference or blame.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.

Or do you also believe that once the battered wife is finally free of her abuser, she should remain in silence, allowing other unsuspecting women to fall into the same life of abuse at the hands of the attacker?

Others, often victims of battering or marital rape, tell of partners insisting on trying some practice discovered in porn wares (10 per cent of such victims in one study) These women report suicide attempts, nightmares, fears, anxieties, shame and guilt — reactions which resemble rape trauma syndrome.

They were in the oven for 8 minutes and they looked ready and I tapped them slightly with a spoon and it was still soft so I left them in for a extra 4 minutes and they were golden so I took them out and they were still a little soft but in about a minute they became hard (not like rocks) hard as in «they held themselves» so there was no crumbling maybe that's the issue with the other women how they had crumbling issues, the batter was a little crumbly but not crazy loose crumbly and the cookies never crumbled for me and this is my first time making these and they tasted perfect, they had just the right amount of bite and they were so soft on the inside as well as on the inside and that's how I like my cookies, YUM, I could only have three (1.

I had the same problem as some of the other women with my batter being too dry.

Use the Internet to locate and contact a local battered women's shelter or other organization devoted to helping women.

Stepping up to help is The Safe Haven Network, a program started by animal advocate Jessica Katz with ongoing support from PAWS Chicago, the Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline, the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network, and others.

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We are a nation of laws, yet we do not provide legal support in any comprehensive way for the millions of people who can not afford a lawyer when they really need one — victims of natural disasters, battered women, children fleeing persecution in their home countries, and many others.

Our mission at Shepherd's Gate is to meet the practical, spiritual, and emotional needs of battered and homeless women and children through the love of Jesus Christ, equipping them to lead a life of faith, hope, and love and to reach out to others in His name.

Battered Women: Stages of Change and Other Treatment Models That Instigate and Sustain Leaving: Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Vol 3 (1) Spr 2003, 83 - 98.

See also D. Dutton and S. Painter, Traumatic Bonding: The Development of Emotional Attachments in Battered Women and Other Relationships of Intermittent Abuse, 6 VICTIMOLOGY 139 - 155 (1981), and F. M. Ochberg, Victims of Terrorism, 41 J. OF CLIN.

In his clinical practice, he specializes in the treatment of PTSD and trauma - related guilt, working with formerly battered women, combat veterans, and other trauma survivors.

He has authored several other books, including Men Who Batter, Battered Women as Survivors, Psychiatric Response to Family Violence, and Assessing Women Battering in Mental Health Services.

White, Ann C., The Florida Bar Journal, Vol LXVIII, No. 9, citing Hansen, Marsali, and Michele Harway, Battering and Family Therapy 175 (1993); Grieg, Geoffrey L. and Rebecca Hegar, «Parents Whose Children Are Abducted by the Other Parent: Implications for Treatment,» 19 American Journal of Family Therapy 215, 221 (1991); Zorza Joan, «Protection for Battered Women and Children,» 27 Clearing House Rev. 1437 (1994).

Our mission at Shepherd's Gate is to meet the practical, spiritual, and emotional needs of battered and homeless women and children through the love of Jesus Christ, equipping them to lead a life of faith, hope, and love and to reach out to others in His name.

For example, the below commenting MHP — who has been a parenting coordinator («case manager») on at least one case known to the author in which a severely battered woman lost custody of her daughter to the abusive father, and who regularly performs custody evaluations as well — appears oblivious to the impact of MHP fees (which typically are divided equally between the parents) on a parent with substantially lower income than the other: [ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «If you want the parents to cooperate, why not add a provision that they must go back to mediation or to a parent coordinator if they can not come to an agreement.