Kids, Martial Arts, And Self-Defense

Parents instinctively know that the safety of their children is under constant threat. More kids than ever before are abducted and victimized by predators each day. Plus, playground bullies, older children, and others prey upon the young, thinking them defenseless. By enrolling your child into martial arts classes, you can equip them with the skills [...]

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 [...]

Reasons for Women to Learn How to Defend Themselves

Below are some statistics that are a must for you to know as a woman or someone that cares for a woman. • Every two minutes, some woman, some place within the United States is being raped. That is 30 women every hour! • Every year, over one million women suffer some form of abuse [...]

How to Cope with Emotional Abuse

Emotional or physical abuse is an all too frequent occurrence for many children and women. Surveys indicate that as many as a fifth of all women are verbally abused at some time during their marriage, and at least 10% of them are abused on a regular basis. When raging, some men will use [...]

The Victim’s Constitutional Right to Reasonable Protection From Revictimization by the Accused?

“The right to be reasonably protected from the accused throughout the criminal justice process” What happens after the criminal justice process is over? What happens to the victim then? The state of Michigan states in their victims of crime handbook the following: “Protection from criminal acts and the “public-duty doctrine.” It should be noted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why a Woman may Choose to Stay in an Abusive Relationship- 16 Reasons

A woman may stay in an abusive relationship longer than is necessary for the following reasons: To avoid the stigma of divorce. Many societies in the developing world consider divorce a cultural taboo; because of this, some women will rather endure abusive relationships than leave the marriage. She keeps hoping the husband would change [...]

Understanding Domestic Violence

Domestic violence used to be kept very quiet, it was almost a taboo subject, but now it’s very open and is a very serious crime. It only used to be women that suffered domestic violence, but now more and more men are coming forward because, they have violent partners. It’s not just physical abuse [...]

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