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This 5 page paper discusses the issue of domestic abuse and the possible solutions to protect women and their children from repeat offenses. Statistical information and facts obtained from the National Center for Domestic Violence, N.O.W., and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Sources quoted, cited. Annotated Bibliography included as well as a fact sheet about violence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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a story of a young woman full of dreams, whose life becomes one nightmare after another. This is the case for many women who find themselves in relationships that they
did not bargain for. According to the national statistics, women are ten times more likely to be victimized by someone they are intimate with, and young women, women who are
separated, divorced or single, as well as low income African American women are the victims of vicious assaults(N.O.W. 2002). What is being done to prevent this from occurring? And what
measures have been taken toward providing better protection for women who find themselves in abusive situations? Most of the traditional procedures in a battering or domestic violence case have involved
separation, restraining orders and sometimes has involved child protective services for the safety of the children. However, according to the concerns of Susan Schechter, of the National Resource Center on
Domestic Violence, these solutions may have inadvertently made things worse for the women, rather than making them better. "The basic goal of (any) project was to identify and help battered
women with abused or neglected children and offer to the women support and advocacy. In this way, women would be better protected, and, as a result, so would their children.
The argument was that childrens safety was usually - although not always - largely dependent on their mothers"(Schechter, 2002). Through various case studies, Schechter found that many women were hesitant
about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the violence, or the system only protected them, and
not the children. In many cases, the children were removed from the home, and away from their mothers while the system attempted to remove the abusive spouse from the premises.
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