Posts Tagged ‘Domestic Violence’
Dating Violence is an Epidemic
By CWLC, CWLC News, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women, Women's Health, May 6th, 2010
“George Huguely has been officially charged with the murder of 22-year-old University of Virginia student Yeardley Love. Love was killed early Monday morning. The Daily Progress reported Huguely admitted to police that, during an argument with Yeardley Love, he “shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall,” according to an affidavit requesting a search warrant.
It was reported that Love was found face down on her pillow in her bedroom. Her right eye was swollen shut, there was a pool of blood on the pillow, and her face was bruised, according to the affidavits. The door to the room had been forced open and had a hole in it, according to the documents. The two had dated for over a year and recently split.
For roughly the…
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Katie Buckland Comments on Domestic Violence Increase During Super Bowl
By CWLC, CWLC News, Domestic Violence, February 5th, 2010This week’s Parade Magazine debunks some Super Bowl myths. Read the article for Katie’s comments on domestic violence. http://www.parade.com/news/intelligence-report/archive/100207-the-truth-behind-super-bowl-myths.html
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Charlie Sheen’s Free Pass
By CWLC, CWLC News, Domestic Violence, January 5th, 2010On 12/29/09, Linda Stasi, columnist at the New York Post (www.nypost.com) commented on Charlie Sheen’s continuing to profit from ‘bad behavior’. Below are excerpts from the column. What are your thoughts?
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Nothing says “holiday joy” like jail for TV’s most famous men.
Late Thanksgiving night, the highest-paid (not to mention the randiest) man in all of sports got into a domestic dispute with his wife, crashed his car, got clubbed by said wife (literally) and ended up snoring on the side of the road before being hauled away, ruining Thanksgiving and the lives of his wife and Tiger cubs, not to mention his career.
On Christmas morning, the highest-paid (even randier) actor on TV wrecked Christmas for his (legally drunk) wife Brooke Mueller and their twins by attacking said…
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Wife-Slapping
By helenann, CWLC News, May 12th, 2009Last weekend, a Saudi newspaper reported that a judge in Saudi Arabia ruled that husbands are allowed to slap their wives when they spend too much shopping. I’m not making this up.
Ridiculous decisions that sanction domestic violence obviously harm all Saudi citizens — men and women alike. But at a time when our government is working to undo the “us vs. them” foreign policy of the last administration and open the hearts and minds of Americans to the importance of reaching out to different cultures around the world, such antiquated and sexist rulings hardly help this important cause.
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Legalizing Rape
By Katie Buckland, Domestic Violence, April 17th, 2009Just when we think that the world has hit a new low, the democratically elected government of Afghanistan has passed the “Afghan Shiite Personal Status Law”, which mandates that a wife have sex with her husband at least every 4 days and can only leave her home with his permission, except in certain specified emergencies.
Stunning.
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