Sentences with phrase «domestic abuse against women»

Not exact matches

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

«We have a whole generation of young people who don't know that abuse is wrong, and who are learning about sex from pornography,» says Natalie Collins, domestic abuse survivor and founder of Spark, a consultancy preventing violence against women.

Slaughter was a co-author of the Violence Against Women Act, a landmark 1994 law aimed at preventing domestic abuse and helping its victims.

Part of a series on: Violence against women; Issues; Acid throwing; Breast ironing; Dating abuse; Domestic violence.

Violence against animals often portends violence against people, but for women experiencing domestic abuse, the two can be one and the same.

The statistics are grim: Seventy - one percent of pet - owning women who go to abuse shelters reported that their abuser had injured, maimed, threatened or killed pets, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Though not about the abuse of women, the 2012 indie title Papo & Yo is an example of a game that respectfully deals with the very serious issue of alcoholism and domestic violence against children.

The Gulabi Gang is a group of Indian women activists responding to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women in India.

• Domestic Abuse Women's Network (DAWN) • LifeWire (Formerly Eastside Domestic Violence Program) • King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (KCCADV) • New Beginnings • Seattle / King County Domestic Violence Protection Order Site • King County Prosecutor's page for information on Protection Orders • King County Sexual Assault Resource Center • Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV) • YWCA Sexual Violence Legal Services

Congreso de Latinos Unidos A Woman's Place (Bucks County) Domestic Violence Center of Chester County Turning Point of Lehigh Valley Women's Resource Center of Scranton Berks County Women in Crisis Women Against Abuse Legal Services Lutheran Settlement House, Domestic Violence Program

Effects of Coordinated Services for Drug - Abusing Women Who Are Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Bennett & O'Brien Violence Against Women, 13 (4), 2007 View Abstract Summarizes outcomes from a demonstration project on collaboration between substance abuse and domestic violence agencies.

Experiences of violence were measured by the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child Institutional (ICAST - CI) 17 and some items from the WHO Multi Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.3 Reliability and construct validity for the ICAST - CI were initially established in four countries and the instrument has since been translated into 20 languages and used extensively in multicountry research.17 Lifetime exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence were constructed as binary variables.

Honor Our Voices Avon Foundation for Women, Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA), and Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) at the University of Minnesota Presents an online learning module of practice guides and digital stories designed to increase the awareness and sensitivity of shelter advocates and other providers to the needs of children and suggests promising ways of enhancing services for children exposed to domestic violence.

Unfortunately, every leading GOP candidate has advocated for a repeal to the ACA, including its protections against being charged more for being a woman or being denied coverage for preexisting conditions that in the past even included domestic violence abuse — many, such as Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, have specifically targeted access to no - copay birth control.

Although there are policies in Wales that aim to address violence, including the recent «Framework for Managing the Night - Time Economy in Wales», 54 the Well - being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, 55 which provisionally includes a national indicator around «feeling safe in the community», and the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act (2015), 56 more can be done to address key risk factors through other measures, including policy.1 Violence is strongly linked to social determinants such as unemployment; income and gender inequality; limited educational opportunities; and cultural, social and gender norms.1 Any comprehensive violence prevention strategy must recognise the influence of such factors and identify ways to mitigate or protect againstAgainst Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act (2015), 56 more can be done to address key risk factors through other measures, including policy.1 Violence is strongly linked to social determinants such as unemployment; income and gender inequality; limited educational opportunities; and cultural, social and gender norms.1 Any comprehensive violence prevention strategy must recognise the influence of such factors and identify ways to mitigate or protect againstagainst risks.

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SECASA SEXUAL ASSAULT articles from South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault (SECASA) False Memory Syndrome, by Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Center; Confronting Precedent and Prejudice, by Jocelynne A. Scutt; Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse - Accurate and truthful disclosures, false allegations, and false denials, by Kay Bussey; Children in the Legal System, by Jan Breckenridge & Moira Carmody; The Psychological Adjustment of the Rape Victim, by Lesley Hewitt; The Child Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, by Roland Summit; Mother / Daughter Rape, by Lee FitzRoy; Offending Women, by Lee FitzRoy; Offending Mothers, by Lee FitzRoy; How Do Children Tell?

Dineen is a problem in some respects in that she is spot - on when it comes to her analyses of MHP science and related issues, but she decidedly skews her focus toward an antagonism against women's rights - type therapists without similarly critiquing «the other side», and toward an overly heavy - handedly skeptical view of sex abuse and domestic violence accusations, without any indication of a balanced consideration of the many MHP abuses on «the other side».