Joe Torre On Domestic Abuse: Baseball "Motivated [Me] To Excel"
Joe Torre rules the Dodger dugout, but his confidence wasn't always so high. The 55-year-old baseball manager opened up to the Los Angeles Times about...
Joe Torre rules the Dodger dugout, but his confidence wasn't always so high. The 55-year-old baseball manager opened up to the Los Angeles Times about...
Trish Kinney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
Anytime abuse and violence against women hits the news, usually by way of celebrities, it is a rare opportunity for awareness and education surrounding an issue that most people would prefer to ignore.
Mara Gibbs | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
At Swifty's, host with the most Robert Caravaggi and his partner Steven Attoe own what is the destination spot of many of NY's blue bloods and bold face names.
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Richard Heene's type of abuse is a glaring example of a largely ignored aspect of violence, emotional abuse. If not addressed emotional abuse easily morphs in physical and sexual violence.
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
A woman's struggle with domestic violence doesn't always end after escape from the abuser. As Annette John-Hall reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer, ...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, The Allstate Foundation and actress Mira Sorvino are encouraging American women to begin a discussion of...
Amie Newman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Is the fact that women experience gender discrimination in health care even debatable? Many insurance companies even regard a C-section as a pre-existing condition. This must stop.
Trish Kinney | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment
His latest film is based on a subject that the filmmaker knows way too much about, based on his recent disclosure of severe childhood abuse.
William Petrocelli | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books
Half the Sky makes the case that the plight of women is getting worse in much of the world and will continue on its downward slide unless we do something about it.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Problem drinking is all too common. Solutions are clear and proven. But their use is rare. The safety, health and economic costs of problem drinking are legion.
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
Our failure is that we think our moral authority makes us separate, if not above, the rest of the world in terms of crimes against our own family members.
Ellen Snortland | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
For battered women in some states, state laws allow insurance carriers to deny coverage to victims of abuse because (are you ready?)... domestic violence (DV) is a pre-existing condition!
Irasema Garza | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
A teenage immigrant girl wants to report a sexual assault by her employer but fears that local law enforcement will detain her, rather than prosecute the perpetrator.
McClatchy | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
Eight states and the District of Columbia don't have laws that specifically bar insurance companies from using domestic violence as a pre-existing con...
Inter Press Service | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
By Nyarai Kachere MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Sep 29 (IPS) - Three years after being seized from their families and forced to marry and have sex with adult m...
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
In cases where the victim-to-offender relationship could be identified, 91 percent of female victims were murdered by someone they knew. Where weapon use could be determined, firearms were the most common.
Jim Luce | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Pro Mujer is helping some of the poorest women in Latin America to increase their income, develop their full potential, and claim their basic human rights, enabling them to become agents of change.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
Violence against women in Afghanistan has risen to a disturbing level since the fall of the Taliban eight years ago. Regardless of a woman's marital s...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
Many people who are against health care reform claim that a public option will result in rationing. But if denying a beaten woman coverage doesn't amount to rationing, what is it?
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
How can boys raised in an abusive environment learn any differently? It is nice to say we have to show them or teach them by example, but what example can we use?
Trish Kinney | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
Choosing well is not always easy. And there is enormous pressure by society to choose a certain way, especially where fantastically complex family relationships are concerned.
Aryn Quinn | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
In the past, Governor Schwarzenegger has championed the rights of victims of domestic abuse. But with a single callous act, he has compromised his legacy.
Irasema Garza | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
In a five year study, women whose male partners experience two or more periods of unemployment are almost three times as likely to be victims of intimate partner violence.
Eve Ensler | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Schwarzenegger has always had contempt for the vulnerable, or maybe it's just his own inner girlie man he despises. But now he has gone too far.
Naveen Naqvi | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
In third world countries such as Pakistan, domestic violence is a huge problem. At the moment, however, Pakistani humanitarian agencies and women's rights groups are cautiously celebrating.
Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact