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What is emotional abuse

Abuse, for a great long time, actually meant “physical abuse.” The concept of emotional abuse was one that most people didn’t understand. And that, right there, is an argument for the prevalence of emotional abuse throughout our history.
The simple fact is that most people have suffered emotional abuse at one point or another in their [...] Read more »

Reporting Domestic Violence

When I was in college, I took part in an independent study group that looked at battered and abused women and why reporting domestic violence doesn’t mean that the violence stops. What we found was very interesting and sad at the same time.
We began our project by contacting a local shelter for battered and abused [...] Read more »