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February 15, 2017 By domesticshelters.org Technology has given us many gifts: Phones that are also cameras. Cars that read our text messages out loud for us. An entire library inside…
Physical abuse includes the physical assault, battery, and sexual assault used as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. Physical abuse…
Published on Feb 15, 2017 Actor Ashton Kutcher testified Wednesday during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on ending modern slavery and human trafficking. The actor is the co-founder of…
What is Human Trafficking? The Trafficking Victims’ Protection Act defines human trafficking as: a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or…
Follow one women’s journey through a year of living in domestic violence. At the video’s conclusion, she holds up a sign that reads, “Help me, I don’t know if I’ll…
Children suffer fear, uncertainty and trauma June 20, 2016 By Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D. Being a mother is the most challenging job in the world, even with the help of…
Domestic violence and animal abuse are often intricately linked February 01, 2017 By domesticshelters.org Q: My husband has a temper, though he’s never actually hit me—he only yells. But lately,…
Shelia Fedrick said she instinctively felt something was wrong the moment she saw the girl with greasy blonde hair sitting in the window seat of aisle 10 on a flight…
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month! Teen DV Month (sometimes called TDVAM) is a national effort to raise awareness about abuse in teen and 20-something relationships and promote programs…
Every year, approximately 1.5 million high school students nationwide experience physical abuse from a dating partner. It is also known that 3 in 4 parents have never talked to their…