. . . those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.
I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.
It’s never too late to do the right thing.
Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.
The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.
Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero
I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.
This is not love. It is a crime. . . You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.
. . . after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.