Trauma and Dating Violence Common Among Troubled Teens

Sexual abuse is any type of sexual activity to which you have not consented.  It may involve pressure to consent, the use of force, violence, or bodily injuries.  Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs and not being able to truly consent to sexual activity is considered sexual assault as well. Stalking is a [...]

Dating Violence Is Real – Learn What To Look For

Dating Violence Is Real – Learn What To Look For What exactly is dating violence you ask? Dating violence is behavior that is controlling, abusive, and/or aggressive in a romantic or dating relationship. It doesn’t matter if the relationship is between gays, straights, whites, blacks or Asians. Dating violence happens in all types of romantic [...]

Victimized Women From Rural Areas – More Vulnerable

United States government statistics revealed the most grueling picture: one in every four women becoming target of domestic violence and approximately 1.3 million women have been physically assaulted by her intimate partner. But women in rural areas facing sexual assault, domestic or other kinds of violence are more vulnerable than their counterparts in cities. [...]

Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program

The Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus Program popularly known as Campus Program is delineated with the motive to encourage and strengthen higher education institutions to endorse responses in a comprehensive and coordinated manner to reduce the said violence often faced by young girls. Campuses in alliance [...]

Teenage Dating Violence: What are the Types of Teenage Dating Violence?

Teenage dating violence is not uncommon; almost a third of teens in the U.S. experience some type of abuse in their relationships. It follows the typical patterns that adult abusive relationships follow with repeated violence which gets worse every time. The abuser feels remorse and says they are sorry with promises to change, but [...]

Relief Funds For Victims Of Domestic Violence

Victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking i.e. women now can get adequate relief through the Government’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVM) having twofold motive: to curtail violence against women and execute justice for and invigorate services to these victimized women. OVM accomplishes this intention through developing and assisting the [...]

The other side of the abuse story

Most of our media reporting on Intimate Partner Violence (domestic violence and dating violence) today are based on patently false information, lack even the pretense of objectivity and violates the very concept of journalistic integrity. They amount to nothing more than ideological propaganda. The most common misrepresentation of facts often states things [...]

Dating a Victim of Domestic Violence? What You Should Know and How You Can Help

Her abusive boyfriend from the past cheated, lied, robbed, raped, abused, and misused her. When you first laid eyes on this gorgeous woman, the last thing you thought was you would be inheriting her wounds from yesteryear. Yet, you did and now you feel at times stuck with both his and her mess. You [...]

Domestic Violence, Though Often Unreported, is Pervasive

Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors perpetrated by one person in a relationship to control the other. Partners may be married or not married; heterosexual, gay, or lesbian; living together, separated or dating. Domestic violence can also occur between siblings, parents and children, and grandparents and grandchildren. However, domestic violence most often occurs [...]