Family Violence and Substance Abuse
Substance abuse has a profound impact on Americans of all ethnic groups. Many people are concerned about substance abuse, especially because it is believed that it ...
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Domestic Violence
Each year in the United States, an estimated two-to-four million women experience serious abuse from a male partner and thousands are killed. As many as one-in-three adult women is a...
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The domestic abuse of men is a hidden side of domestic violence.
Billboards, radios and TVs across the country claim that every fifteen seconds a women is beaten by a man, but has anyone ever asked h...
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Introduction: Domestic Violence and our welfare system
Economic distress does not directly cause domestic violence but there is no question that economic hardships along with other outside factors ca...
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The purpose of this critique is to explore Harner's (2003) study based on the relationship between domestic violence, and trauma related care of pregnant teenagers, and their male partners, based on t...
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Domestic violence is on the rise in most countries around the world. It is a pattern of on-going hurtful controlling activities, including physical, sexual, emotional and verbal abuse. Domestic violen...
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Domestic violence is as old as recorded history. There have been reports of domestic violence since the dawn of time, in every country. Throughout history domestic violence has been legal and socia...
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Historically, legal and social traditions in the United States have permitted and supported the abuse of women and children by the male head of household. This historical phenomenon helps explain w...
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"Hi. My name is John Doe. My sufferings are endless. I can't take it anymore. It's time to put an end to this. I'm going to call the police and report to them that I am a battered husband." How many ...
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There are two definitions of domestic violence. The legal definition is: "anyone who has been physically harmed; placed in fear of imminent serious harm, including attempted harm; and/or engaged inv...
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Unmarried couples can be prosecuted under Ohio's domestic violence laws even though the state bans gay marriages, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.In a 6-1 decision, justices rejected an argu...
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Domestic violence rates fell sharply between 1993 and 2004, the Justice Department said Thursday, noting that American Indian women and native Alaskan women are far more likely to be victimized tha...
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President Felipe Calderon praised on Thursday a new law that obligates federal and local authorities to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women, and he promised a "relentless" fight ag...
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Gloria Holmes-Mason tried to get away from her abusive husband again and again.She was in the process of divorcing him, but he was still abusing her when she finally got the help she credits with s...
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Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest pleaded no contest Thursday to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge stemming from a March 5 dispute with his wife, the latest in a string of off-court problems...
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BEIJING, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Domestic violence is widespread
and on the rise in China, where complaints of abuse soared 70
percent last year, state media said on Monday, citing a women's
advocacy g...
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Accra (dpa) - Gender activists, child advocates and civil society
groups are celebrating a major victory in the West African state of
Ghana: the passage of a domestic violen...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - Cases of domestic violence in high-rise Hong
Kong have doubled in the first six months of the year as more women
come forward to report assaults, police an...
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Domestic violence and poverty are preventing many Zambian women from accessing AIDS drugs, undermining the Zambian government's ambitious treatment program, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.The New ...
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Family Violence and Substance Abuse
Domestic Violence
Men Don't Tell: A Movie About the Domestic Abuse of Men
Domestic violence law upheld under ban
