Domestic Abuse and Substance Abuse

TweetAs I read more and more stories about domestic abuse and talk to more and more people who are domestic abuse survivors or currently living in an abusive situation, I have found a common factor in all of them and that is that the abuser also abuses one or more substances.  Now, I am not [...]

Facing The Barrels Of A Shotgun

TweetI have long tried to explain to others what it is like to be in a domestic violence situation and why it is so hard to get out.  I have tried to figure out how we get ourselves into such situations in the first place.  And I have always emphasized how important it is to [...]

Domestic Violence Victim Gets Jailed for Lying About Beating

TweetIn one of the most horrible miscarriages of justice that I have ever heard, a woman was sentenced to 365 days in jail for lying about being beaten by her boyfriend.  The full story is attached for your own reading and thoughts.  To make a long story short, a tape of an interview with the [...]

Verbal Abuse

TweetI had a very interesting email this week from a young lady in response to one of my previous blogs wherein she talked about her life in mostly terms of how the things that her father has said over the years are affecting her life.  It really started my thinking about how I have found [...]

Basketball Icon In Violent Video Game Ad

TweetI have a great concern about basketball icon Kobe Bryant brandishing an assault weapon in a war video game commercial. Although I know it is a fantasy game that is very popular in the gaming world among kids and adults, is this really the wisest move that Kobe should be making with the violence that [...]

The Abuse of Power

TweetWhen most people hear the words “abuse of power”, thoughts drift toward those who are in charge of running countries, mostly because these are the situations that are most visible in the press.  We hear about how kings build great wealth and enjoy all of the best things in life while their people are starving [...]

Manual on How to Molest Children Is Legal

TweetI ran across this story today and I can’t believe what I read.  This is a true story that was reported on ABC News’ website and I can’t remember the last time when I was as livid as I am because of the information contained in the story.  In case you didn’t want to follow [...]

The Residual Effects of Domestic Abuse

TweetI have always believed that long after the physical scars of domestic abuse have healed, the mental scars were still ever present and would remain until such time as we could reach the point where we understood what those scars actually are and how they continue to influence our lives.  For many, the discovery comes [...]

Violence Among Our Young People

TweetI don’t know how many of you may have seen the incident following the Boise St. / Oregon college football game last evening (see video below) but I can’t tell you how shocked and saddened I felt.  Oregon player LeGarrette Blount punched a member of the Boise St. team at the end of the game.  [...]

The David Letterman/Sarah Palin Controversy

TweetI normally do not include in my blogs the names of specific individuals but rather I try to write about general issues.  This week, I am making an exception.  I was so angered by the comment that David Letterman included in his monologue about Sarah Palin’s daughter that I just can’t sit back and let [...]

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