Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life. This holiday season, a donation as small as $27 to Safe Horizon will put a victim of violence and abuse on the road to self-sufficiency. Safe Horizon’s first gift catalog ever offers supporters concrete examples of [...]

Although it is typically envisioned as occurring between partners, domestic violence is any emotional, physical or sexual abuse by a household member. Rather than being isolated events, domestic violence tends to recur and increase in severity over time.
Victims often wrestle with feelings of fear, loyalty, guilt and shame. Further aggravating the situation is that victims [...]

The National Network to End Domestic Violence, a social change organization, is dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which domestic violence against women no longer exists and perpetrators are held accountable. NNEDV’s primary membership is an alliance of the 56 state and territorial coalitions against state domestic violence coalitions, allied organizations [...]

Changes made to Facebook’s terms of use is finally generating some buzz. The “new’ terms of use has actually been in place since February 2009, and the real issue at hand is not what was added, but what was removed. Facebook has always had an “irrevocable, perpetual” license to use your “name, likeness, and image” [...]

Although it is typically envisioned as occurring between partners, domestic violence is any emotional, physical or sexual abuse by a household member. Rather than being isolated events, domestic violence tends to recur and increase in severity over time.
Oftentimes, victims wrestle with feelings of fear, loyalty, guilt and shame. Furthermore, victims who are financially dependent often [...]

Rape remains an issue shrouded in a cloak of mystery – the most common victims are intimate partners and many do not have the fortitude to testify against a ‘loved’ one. Research since the women’s movement in the 1970’s confirms the magnitude of the rape problem. In 2005, the National Crime Victimization Survey estimates 192,000 [...]

Community policing is becoming an increasingly common approach in policing today. Community policing alters the fundamentals of policing. It holds that the police should work closely with residents, that they should emphasize crime prevention, as opposed to law enforcement, and that they should decentralize the decision-making authority to rank-and-file officers.
Community policing programs takes many different [...]

It is another day and Laws.com has been speaking to many more organizations that are working toward the goal of raising awareness and trying to put an end to abuse towards children. The groups that we have found for today are all doing great things for the community so we thought many of you out [...]

The number of children that come from homes where abuse is prevalent is astounding. It can be very difficult for children to speak out for themselves against family members, who are supposed to be their protectors, and get out of situations that are harmful to them. Children who suffer or have suffered from abuse can [...]

This piece of legislation was made into United States law in 1994, marking the year as one of the most productive in terms of women’s rights in decades. The Violence Against Women Act’s main focus was for the federal government to provide money to local authorities, so that they were better able to investigate and [...]