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- The Importance of a Safety Plan
If you are being hurt by an intimate partner, you may be wondering how you got into this fix. You may be asking yourself if there is a way out. Perhaps you think your life...
- Rural Women: To Leave or Stay: How To Decide?
If you are being abused by an intimate partner, you might be considering a separation. Or maybe you aren't anywhere near making such a decision, but your family...
- How Advocates And Shelters Can Help - For Rural Women and Others
The person who can help you sort out your situation is likely to be an advocate at a local hotline or shelter. If you can't reach a local advocate, call the National Domestic...
- Women With Disabilities
"Had I not been blind he would have chosen another vehicle by which to intimidate me. My disability was just the most convenient means available. It afforded him a myriad of ways...
- Religious Challenges for Women Abused by Spouses
"It's right here in the Bible... 'For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ...
"The Prophet Muhammad says men have rights over their wives. You have to..."
"It's the obligation of a Jewish wife to create Shalom Bayit" (a peaceful family)...
- Deaf Women
As a Deaf woman you are probably used to doing things differently from hearing people. The way abuse is carried out will be different too. If you are Deaf, or Deaf-Blind...
- Immigrant Communities Change
After living in the United States for years many immigrants change. Members of your own community may have begun to realize how dangerous battering can be...