|
ISSUE
RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
Domestic
Violence Hotlines and Resources:
National and state information on domestic violence,
including hotlines and mailing addresses for domestic
violence centers.
Domestic
Violence Information Pages:
Essays, comments, statistics, and contacts for assistance
and links on domestic violence.
Domestic
Violence Shelter Tour:
Learn about life in a shelter by taking a virtual
reality tour. Includes facts, contacts, and more information.
Family Violence
Prevention Fund:
The FVPF is a national non-profit organization that
focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and
public policy reform.
Family
Crisis Center:
Offers support and shelter for individuals and families
experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault, and child
abuse.
Healing
Hearts:
Non-profit organization designed to eliminate domestic
violence.
Let’s
Protect:
Dedicated to women and children who have been or are
being abused, and looking for crisis help.
Maitri:
Non-profit organization helping South Asian women
facing domestic violence.
Minnesota
Center Against Violence and Abuse:
Resources, references, teaching aids, conferences,
and hypertext links examining issues of violence and abuse.
National
Coalition Against Domestic Violence:
Dedicated to the elimination of personal and societal
violence in the lives of women and children.
No
Safe Place: Violence Against Women:
Companion site to the PBS documentary film which tells
the stories of women who have been battered, assaulted,
and raped.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AND PUBLICATION LINKS:
Cook,
Philip. Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence.
Westport, Conn., Praeger, 1997.
Offers emotional stories and self-help for victims.
Anderson, Vera. A Woman Like You. Seal Pr Feminist Pub.,
1997. Photojournalistic study of women who have suffered
domestic violence.
Frye, Pat. Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence.
Abuse victim and survivor Pat Frye tells her own story.
Mincava
– Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse:
Extensive domestic violence bibliography from Mincava.
|
|
|
Domestic violence is defined as the actual or threatened physical, sexual,
psychological or economic abuse of an individual by someone with whom
he or she has had an intimate relationship. In the case of rape, for example,
three in four women who reported being raped and/or physically assaulted
said that a current or former husband, cohabitating partner, or date had
committed the assault.
Domestic violence is not specific to any race, age, gender, or sexual
orientation. Nonetheless, women are five to eight times more likely than
men to be victimized by an intimate partner; and in cases of domestic
violence, women are much more likely to be injured than men.
It is extremely difficult to determine precisely the annual number of
domestic violence cases. Many cases of abuse go unreported due to the
inherently close relationships between victim and attacker. Moreover,
the subject of domestic violence remains generally unspoken within many
societies, and is still not widely addressed in the United States. According
to Department of Justice estimates, there are upwards of one million annual
incidents of violence against former or current spouses, boyfriends or
girlfriends, and nearly four million cases of women abused by their husband
or live-in partners. Shockingly nearly one-third of American women report
incidents of physical or sexual abuse by a husband or boyfriend at some
point in their lives.
In recent years, awareness of the gravity and extent of domestic violence
has increased as more and more women have spoken publicly about their
experiences. The list below indicates some of the resources to which victims
of domestic abuse or friends of victims can turn to for help.
Sources: Family Violence Prevention Fund
|
