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Why Your Daughter Needs A Self-Defense Class
I have two teenaged daughters. I’ve worked in domestic violence advocacy for ten years. I am a woman myself. Yet I’ve never taken a self-defense class. Until last weekend, when I spent two hours with 10 fifteen year old girls and a female instructor who had a black belt in karate and years of self-defense…
Domestic Violence Linked to Later Mental Problems in Women
According to a new study in theJournal of the American Medical Association, women are much more likely to develop a mental disorder at some point in their lives if they have been the victim of rape, sexual assault, stalking, or intimate-partner violence. While this does not come as a surprise to most, the interesting aspect of the study is that it shows just how connected these two occurences are. It also emphasizes how important it is for doctors and health care workers to ask women about prior violent incidents, even if they are from years ago.