The Private Violence project tackles the myths and misconceptions about domestic violence that make the world a dangerous place for one in four women and their families. Thirty-five years into the battered women's movement, it's time to start asking...
Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! interviewed Cynthia Hill, director of "Private Violence", an HBO documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week, and Kit Gruelle, who's featured in the film. You can watch the interview, along with...
Ryan Beck Turner, associate director of advocacy for the Human Trafficking Center , wrote this for journalists, but it's useful for people who read stories about human trafficking, too. Here's the first part of his essay, and one of the five...
Cynthia L. Cooper wrote this story about the continuing bad news from family courts for WomensEnews.org. At the same time that Colorado opened its doors to the legal sale of marijuana on Jan. 1 and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed loosening...
One of my first memories was being awaken by the car horn before the crack of dawn. I remember slowly making my way down the hallway to the stairs and cautiously beginning my descent as my mother, unaware that she was being followed, opened...
Recent research on resilient adults has shown that their health fares poorly despite their upward mobility. I write about this in light of a conversation I had with a Camden high school student and the resiliency project I am developing. ...
These are two very well explanations. The first link http://gobbelcounseling.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/trauma-doesnt-tell-time/ gives good explanation how some information in our brains is recalled (what most of us call memory) while other information...
Four ACEs Is Not A Winning Hand! Sure, you can sit at a poker table and get pretty excited if you’re holding 4 aces. You’d probably bet a lot of money on what you think is a winning hand. If you did win, you’d be telling everyone you...
Greetings! At the risk of coming off overly dramatic, I honestly believe that the more signatures (of U.S. citizens) that we can get on this petition, the better off human kind will be. Okay, maybe not by huge margins, but, a little bit. And a little...
Douglas County Georgia Juvenile Court Judge Peggy Walker is an activist judge for the children of her state – the children she loves who do not get what they need for healthy, successful lives. She sees how the children are failed when...
In 2009, when the Kings Canyon Unified School District in California's rural Central Valley offered its 19 schools the opportunity to adopt a system that would reduce school suspensions and expulsions, Reedley High School jumped at the...
While it may sound like an unusual partnership, nevertheless, the Beloit Fine Arts Incubator and the Rock County Youth Services Center have joined forces to present an additional exhibit this month. As a result, on display through Friday at the...
In 2013, New Mexico dropped to dead last in the national Kids Count ranking for child well-being. Kids delivered biscochitos to legislators with the message "Don't Sugarcoat It. We're 50th." New Mexico was No. 49 in 2012, with Mississippi in...
Brain imaging experiments have revealed for the first time how ecstasy produces feelings of euphoria in users. Results of the study at Imperial College London, parts of which were televised in Drugs Live on Channel 4 in 2012, have now been published...