Gin's Pages for
Battered and Abused Women

A healing place of compassion and support.

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"I have always been a staunch supporter of Abused Women, being a survivor myself (from my first marriage) I understand how important the rights, needs, support , information and compassion is needed to help all women in an abusive relationship .
Sadly, it does not stop there, if children are involved, they are the innocent victims of abuse and feel helpless to do anything about it."

Children in Abusive Home

Children are often the unintended victims of battering. Children in violent homes face dual threats: the threat of witnessing traumatic events and the threat of physical assault. Children of abused women may:

  Be injured during an incident of parental violence
  Be traumatized by fear for their mother and their own      helplessness in protecting her
  Blame themselves for not preventing the violence or for      causing it
  Be abused or neglected themselves

CHILD ABUSE IN VIOLENT HOMES

The risk of child abuse is significantly higher when partner assault is also reported.

  Nearly half of men who abuse their female partners also abuse their children

  Nationally, 75% of battered women say their children are also battered. Another study found that one-third of the families reporting a violent incident between the parents also reported the presence of child abuse

  Women being battered are less able to care for their children. Eight times as many women report using physical discipline on their children while with their batterer than when living alone or in a non-battering relationship

WITNESSING PARENTAL ABUSE

  Over 3 million children are at risk of exposure to parental violence each year

  Children from violent families can provide clinicians with detailed accounts of abusive incidents their parents never realized they had witnessed