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Abuse and Divorce - Why You'd Want to Make Friends With Your Divorce Court Record
I once heard that the hardest thing for an abused child, next to being abused, is to tell and re-tell their story of the abuse. As a psychologist, I know this to be established thinking and as a protective parent, I witnessed it as well. It's not that muc...
Abuse and Control - How to Understand and Transcend the Endless Control in Abusive Relationships
People in all phases of an abusive relationship ask the same question, over and over again: "Why does my partner or ex-partner still control me, our children or matters in general?"
For example, in desperation battered women cry out, "My husband is us...
American Red Cross Auto Donation - Auto Donation Program For a Worthy Bring about
Do you want to get rid of a junk car? Perhaps the automobile isn't even junk but you nevertheless want to look at donating it to charity. Donating a car to charity is some thing several men and women do specifically considering the trouble of offering an ...
Wesley Mission Report Show Homeless Rates Up Due To Limited Access To Rentals
Today more Australian families are facing the prospect of homelessness as the number of available rental properties and different forms of public housing continue to decline. This may be the troubling reality revealed in the findings of a report released ...
Your Guide to Safe Passage—Before Leaving (Part I)
People wonder why women who are abused do not leave their violent partners. From the outside, it seems so simple, but it’s not. Living with a batterer is dangerous, but leaving one can be dangerous, too. This article is the first in a series of two on h...
The Appeal Of Rihanna - What Makes Her A Draw?
In her young life, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, also known simply as Rihanna, has made a huge impact on popular culture. The pop diva will only be 23 in 2011, but she has managed to sell more than 25 million albums and 45 million singles in the process. Rihanna's...
Get Cash For Your Old Cell Phone
We are in a world where technology is always updating. The Cell Phone industry It's updating faster than we update our electronic devices. We live a throw away society. You get a new computer, out with the old. You get a new plasma TV, out with the old. C...
Donate Cars To Charitable Organization
Lots of people want to know about producing car donations to charity. Are you needing some help determining just how exactly to give aide to particular charity?
Nonprofit agencies nationwide will require charity car donations as well as accept many ot...
Recycle or sell you old Mobile Phone
We live in a world where technology is always updating. It's updating faster than we update our electronic devices. We live a throw away society. You get a new computer, out with the old. You get a new plasma TV, out with the old. Cell phones are no excep...
Did you think to volunteer?
Did you think to volunteer?
Many people think about volunteering, perhaps more than you imagine. The question is, where? For whom? No lack of noble goals around us, people in poverty, youth at risk, battered women, children who need some warmth and sec...
Domestic Mental Abuse - The Silencing of Battered Women and Abused Men
For decades battered women have been accused of being "crazy." But, what does that mean?
Is she really crazy? That is, does she truly have a psychiatric disorder? Is her alleged psychopathology real?
Has she been told—by non-professionals—that she's...
Crisis Pregnancy: Care and Help Is Available
Crisis pregnancy care centers and hotlines can make a big difference to a pregnant woman experiencing crisis. Reaching out to a crisis center can help in many ways and for many types of crises. There are online help centers and phone based ones as well a...
Emotionally Abusive Relationship Intervention - 3 Keys to Freeing Yourself from Emotional Abuse
A psychologist in India recently asked me to write about the following - How can a woman, one without access to professional help, take steps towards freeing herself from an emotionally abusive relationship?
As I think about this question, I realize th...
Battered and Abused Men - Domestic Violence Is Genderless
Some battered women take objection to the idea of helping abused men as though this poses a conflict of professional commitments. However, I see it differently.
In my own practice of helping battered women, I'm keenly aware that many of the male abuser...
Some thougts on domestic violence shelters
Shelters are run, funded, and managed either by governments or by volunteer non-government organizations. According to a 1999 report published by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, there are well over 2000 groups involved in sheltering abus...