domestic violence | domestic violence
Sep.23.2009
Not having the opportunity to say goodbye has happened to me and my family all too often. We lost one child in 1980 to an automobile wreck, another in 1995 to murder by home invasion and our 28 year old daughter, Lisa to domestic violence in 2001. I spoke to Lisa by phone the night before her...
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Aug.10.2009
On July 16th, at the Aladdin Shrine Center, Columbus, Ohio, 2009 National Indie Award winning authors Marala Scott and Tre Parker (In Our House, Perception vs. Reality) spoke out against Domestic Violence and Child Abuse and shared their story that has been inspiring all who have heard it. Scott...
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Aug.10.2009
I have long believed that no psychotherapist can facilitate real change without a supernatural anointing. In other words, counseling and psychotherapy require a gifting through the Holy Spirit.
This premise applies in a powerful way to victims of child and domestic abuse. Only a survivor of such...
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Jun.23.2009
Every book has a genesis, right?
When my sister was eight, my mother warned her against letting my father into our apartment in Brooklyn. Perhaps she also cautioned me, but I was barely five and can’t remember. Years later, as adults, when my sister and I began exploring our childhood in that way...
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May.25.2009
A Mask Called Parents
A few years back here in Japan, I heard the news: an exhausted father beat his son to death with a baseball bat while he slept. Yoshimichi Nakajima, the author of "The Philosophy of Discriminating Minds" talks about this case. He says, "I was a bit involved...
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Mar.19.2009
In the wake of the discussion about Rihanna's decision to continue her relationship with Chris Brown after he physically abused her (taking place in the Red Room several days ago on Heather Catherine Hogan's, Ellen Sheeley's, and my blogs), I felt compelled to post a link to this NYTimes article...
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Mar.11.2009
Sexual abuse in Africa 4:25 PM PDT, March 11, 2009 I received the following email yesterday: "I am a slave in Africa, I have been sexually abuse by my buyer for 5 yrs now, I am a young Girl of 19yrs of age I was sole out to slavery at the age of 14yrs. I don’t know what to do I tried running...
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Mar.06.2009
I just posted an inordinately long response to Heather Catherine Hogan's blog post regarding Rihanna's reconciliation with Chris Brown. Since it is long enough to be a blog post itself, I thought I'd go ahead and post it here, too, though it's not on a subject I had planned to blog about. But I'm...
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Mar.05.2009
Heather Catherine Hogan's recent blog post (http://www.redroom.com/blog/heather-catherine-hogan/why-do-women-go-back) questioning why victims of domestic violence so often return to their perpetrators has had me Googling for answers.
In so doing, I stumbled upon CNN's Web site. That news...
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Feb.17.2009
The Middle East Quarterly just published a timely article by Ms. Phyllis Chesler about the differences between dishonor killings and domestic violence. The article contains some interesting charts of cases in North America and Europe, though I can tell by eyeballing them that she's missed some of...
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