In a mindless ritual, women in India’s Haryana state are forced to mourn the death of an elderly relative by walking barefoot for 12 days, while men in the family don’t. An IndiaUnheard Community...
A 76-year-old Melbourne man has been jailed for 18 years for killing his wife with a hatchet. Peter and Rosa Caruso were about to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary when he attacked her with a hatchet at...
Having looked at domestic violence across cultures, I've come to the conclusion that conventional explanations for domestic violence (low self-esteem; personality disorders; and further on along the same line) are wrong, and that the real reason for domestic violence is...
Tonight a letter will be coming your way, detailing the miscarriage of justice that this Topeka mother and daughter has endured in Kansas courts. Please consider carefully how best you can help. Claudine has been a strong voice for battered and abused mothers,...
To effectively fight domestic violence one must know the causes of domestic violence. And the first step toward knowing that is knowing what they are not.It is not love, beauty, romance or sexuality. The sexless Puritans are highly violent toward their wives; the unattractive...
Social movements have the habit of empowering the people who least deserve it and coming down hardest on the people who likewise deserve it the least. When Soviet Union fell, it was not the real wrongdoers - the...
County spent $4,000 so father with history of DV can visit baby out-of-state (Montgomery County, Ohio) At a time when roads are going unrepaired because of falling tax revenues, when unemployed people are being denied benefits and so on, it strikes me as ABSURD that the...
There's a fair number of background stories on custodial dad OLIVER BRAMAN, who killed his 9-year-old son in 2007. The case has recently made the news again as the boy's non-custodial mother is now suing the state of Michigan. This is one of the more informative articles I've...
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In June 2008, Stacey Doss of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA got a phone call that changed her path in life. The public relations consultant, was recently divorced and after years of unsuccessful fertility...
Many who know me, know that I stand and support many issues, from missing persons, domestic violence, mothers without custody, human trafficking, self-defense, and victim’s rights. Whew, it’s a lot to take in and a lot of information to spread around to bring awareness...
opinion by Delilah | 2 years ago 199 views | 6 recommendations | 3 comments
When asked about domestic violence, one man replied, "What else should I do besides beat her? Worship her or what?". This repulsive mentality is far too common among many Indian men. In the same report done by Samvad, a Video Volunteer's correspondent, another man...
In a bold entry on the MurphyMilano Journal, Susan Murphy-Milano has thrown down the gauntlet to anyone interested in joining forces to be a voice against family violence. Every day there are new reports of homicide involving family members against each other, and this...
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‘Hi, I am Varsha. 3 days after I was married, my husband beat me unconscious’. For an opening PTC, this is perhaps the most shocking line a reporter could come up with. But then, Varsha, is not just another reporter sending just another report to fill in...
I have been doing a lot of writing against wrongful and erroneous action in politics. Here I am writing what I actually want to see done.I want high-technology, high-intelligence, high-job-creation abundant clean energy solutions to be implemented around the world...
The headline in the Washington Post, " HEARTHBREAKING FINISH FOR U-VA ROMANCE," continues, in my opinion, an ignorant yet sweeping trend in reporting these tragic crimes. Instead of sugar coating a headline that brings readers to the Internet or sell newspapers why...
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