Battered Women And America’s Secret Shame

It’s effortless to be smug and protected in our own preconceptions about our country and culture. We’re, in the end, America – that shining city with a hill, as Ronald Reagan called it. That beacon of existence, liberty and justice for all. That bastion of freedom and equality inside a world filled by extremism, socialism [...]

Physical Abuse in Marriage: 20 Causative Factors

Physical abuse in marriage is the act of inflicting pain on a partner in order to assert control over him/her. More cases of physical abuse in marriage involve the male partner as the aggressor than the female. Every year in the US, 2 to 4 million women are assaulted by male partners as against [...]

Self Defense For Women

As per the statistics of F.B.I. crime, every year 78,000 violent rapes have reported in United States. Out off this, worst is in every 2 minutes more than ten thousands of rapes and molestations are taken place. It may not be a surprising fact that the victims may be you or some times even [...]

Gender Based Hat Crimes

Women are the predominant victims in this historical problem that has existed for a long time. In the US gender crimes were first categorized as hate crimes by the 1998 act on hate crimes prevention. This federal act on Hate crimes statistics does not however collect data on heterosexual gender crimes. It only collects [...]

Male Victims of Domestic Violence – When HE is the Victim

There are many programs for female victims of domestic violence too numerous to mention – and that’s a good thing. But what happens when the MALE is the victim of domestic violence? Are we as a society quick to intervene, do we show compassion for the male victim, or do we simply look the [...]