Sentences with phrase «assault happening to women»

Not exact matches

But what's most dangerous about this posture is that Piper seems to assume that because evangelicals aren't confronting sexual assault and abuse the way that Hollywood is, then those things must not be happening in their churches, that abuse only occurs in egalitarian communities where women have more power and influence.

Women who experience assault are terrified, ashamed and embarrassed to reveal what happened.

Trump tweeted a sweeping denial of the many sexual assault allegations that have hounded him over the past few years, saying that «nothing ever happened with any of these women» and implying last October that one of them was not attractive enough for him to find sexually desirable.

That's how women can be controlled (which is why the assault on women's rights that is sure to happen under President - elect Donald Trump is very real and something to be vigilant about).

Reading the accounts of women harassed and assaulted by HW and their various efforts to negotiate the attacks, at the same that this was happening, was making my blood boil.

Furthermore, some believe that if a sexual assault were to happen, a woman lawyer would immediately tell someone in authority.

These harassment policies should include reference to sexual assault if at a minimum to alert potential vulnerable women that assaults can happen.

Because we offer both a family violence and sexual assault response, we're now able to respond immediately when a woman's risk elevates and keep her engaged with therapeutic counselling without the interruption that would happen if we referred her to another service.

Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for custody... may appear unstable or emotional while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....