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Domestic Violence/Immigrant Hispanic Women

in the face of adversity" (Greene 2). Studies of risk and resilience are similar in structure to epidemiological investigations ...

Domestic Violence And Immigrant Hispanic Women

dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...

A Domestic Violence Project for Immigrant Hispanic Women

that large populations of children are exposed to violent disagreements in their homes and that Hispanic children are likely to ex...

Domestic Violence When Men Are the Victims and Women Are the Abusers

from emotional abuse to severe physical abuse. Domestic violence is an all too frequent occurrence in modern society. The ...

Immigrant Social Workers and Domestic Violence Implications

result in stressful family conflicts over role expectations and individual behaviors" (Bhattacharya, 2002; p. 175). Acevedo...

Women's Participation in Domestic Violence

This essay, first of all, considers the impact of recent media exposure in regards to domestic violence incidents and celebrities....

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

The Domestic Violence Arrest Decision Reviewed

claim the authors, can go a long way toward assisting response to those in need (Robinson and Chandek, 2000). The authors ...

Summary of John Ashcroft's Consideration of Granting Abused Women Asylum

she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who i...

Women as Victims of Violent Acts

against women in curricular content; and working toward changing attitudes towards women that condone, or may encourage, acts of v...

Gayle Gullett's "Women Progressives And Immigrant Women"

every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...

Domestic Violence and Protection of Women and Children

The argument was that childrens safety was usually - although not always - largely dependent on their mothers"(Schechter, 2002). ...

Australia and Domestic Abuse

In ten pages domestic abuse is examined within the context of Australia in a description of family violence causes and how women i...

Domestic Violence and African Americans

to criminal activity, to substance abuse. These problems have both direct and indirect impacts on the family. A considerable bod...

Domestic Violence, Cause and Effect

This paper presents a cause-and-effect discussion that focuses on domestic violence, identifying the factors believed to be the do...

Domestic Abuse: Federal and Illinois Law

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...

Domestic Violence Disclosure

This paper discusses domestic violence, the importance of screening for domestic violence and the problems associated with this is...

Domestic Violence History

In five pages this paper examines domestic violence in a historical consideration that considers the infamous O.J. Simpson case wh...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

The Psychological Factors that Impact Women's Decision to Return Home

abusive ultimately create a cycle of abuse whereby children whose innate defense against such inhumane treatment is to become abus...

Domestic Violence Advocacy

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

Shelters for Battered Women

Shelters for women who have been abused is the focus of this paper as is domestic violence in a general sense. How battered women ...

Gendered Issue of Domestic Violence

independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Hispanic Women from 2 Perspectives

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the views of Hispanic women featured in Chiquita's Cocoon: The Latina Women's Guid...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

FreshStart for Women

children. Domestic Violence in America Domestic violence appears to be increasing. Whether that is actually the case is no...

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

Women and Domestic Violence

This research paper provides an overview of women and domestic violence. Six pages in length, eight sources are cited. ...