Violence Against Women - Protecting Yourself
Including Physical, Emotional, and Mental Violence
Abuse can be physical, mental, and emotional. Violence against women in any form is a crime, whether the abuser is a family member; someone you date; a current or past spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend; an acquaintance; or a stranger. You are not at fault. You did not cause the abuse to occur. If you or someone you know has been sexually, physically, or emotionally abused, seek help from other family members and friends or community organizations. Talk with a health care provider, especially if you have been physically hurt. Learn how to reduce your risk of becoming a victim of sexual assault or sexual abuse before you find yourself in an uncomfortable or threatening situation. One important part of getting help is knowing if you are in an abusive relationship. Sometimes it can be hard to admit that you are in an abusive relationship.
Signs You Are Presently Being Abused or May Soon Be Abused
Monitors what you're doing all the time criticizes you for little things constantly accuses you of being unfaithful
Prevents or discourages you from seeing friends or family, or going to work or school
Gets angry when drinking alcohol or using drugs
Controls how you spend your money
Controls your use of needed medicines
Humiliates you in front of others
Destroys your property or things that you care about
Threatens to hurt you, the children, or pets
Does hurt you (by hitting, beating, pushing, shoving, punching, slapping, kicking, or biting)
Uses or threatens to use a weapon against you
Forces you to have sex against your will
Blames you for his or her violent outbursts
What You Should Do?
Contact the police or local authorities
Tell friends and family in case anything would ever happen to you
Keep a cell phone with you
Tell others where you are going and when you'll return In most industrialized nations, about 4 women a day die from violence from a man. There are one million batterings and 300,000 sexual assaults. It is cowardice and a denial of someone's basic human rights, stripping them of their dignity and self-respect. It is like murdering someone's soul.
Worldwide, anywhere from 10 to 50% of the female, adult population reported abuse of one form or another. Often they were multiple abuses, such as emotional and sexual. The World Heath Organization has done more than one single entity to not only prevent this abuse, but to educate and hopefully eliminate it. There is also a governmental women's advocate website that can give you more about protecting yourself. Violence against women may never be eradicated completely, but nations should see to it that the dignity of every human being, regardless of gender, are protected of their human rights. There is no excuse for violence against women. Especially at the hands of a male.
Published by Jack Wellman
I'm a pastor at Mulvane Brethren Church (KS) & author who gives free training for Effective Evangelism at various churches in the states and have published 3 books on Amazon: "Teaching Children The Gospel",... View profile
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28 Comments
Post a CommentGreat information Jack.
Great topic, good reminder
I have been one of the lucky ones, the Lord blessed me with a good husband! Great article.
Thanks for posting the Aritcle! Good for Women to be aware of and that they can get help! Sometimes they are afraid and have children but getting it out there helps! I had a friend who was in an abusive relationship! Thanks Jack and Blessings!
Yes, and the saddest fact is that so many women are damaged by people they know and trust. But those attacks would be less frequent, I think, if women were more observant of the red flags you raise here, because this sort of behavior does tend to start off slowly and then escalate after the criminal learns that he can get away with it.
I'm touched by how you apologize for sharing this picture, Jack. Sadly, it's only by informing and educating that we can prevent this. I have the unfortunate experience of taking our eldest to ER after being beaten. I can barely bring myself to think about it, but if it prevents another woman from being injured, I must keep telling the story.
Typo correction: Hi Jack, I am trying to get a National Serial Domestic Violence Registry for the United States. Other countries have been creating these to help prevent women from getting trapped by cunning serial domestic violence offenders. I encourage people to write into the White House at www.whitehouse.gov/contact to request one. As for women caught with violent men, until the laws change to really protect them and their children-leaving could be deadly to them or their children. Most killings occur while leaving or after they have left. God bless.
Case where 3 children are dead-it could have been prevented-the father has threatened to kill them but visitation and custody was given to him anyway. What did he do? Kill the 3 babies. http://wjz.com/local/amy.castillo.children.2.691594.html
Hi Jack, I am trying to get a National Serial Domestic Violence Registry for the United States. Other countries have been creating to help prevent women from getting trapped by cunning serial domestic violence offenders. I encourage people to write into the White House at www.whitehouse.gov/contact to request one. As for women caught with violent men, until the laws change to really protect them and their children-leaving could be deadly to or their children. Most killings occur while leaving or after they have left. God bless.
Children and wife will have emotional scars for the life time who are the victims of Domestic Violence.Abusive marriages are not by definition marriages based on peace and therefore are subject to separation for safety .Many passages in the Bible speak out on the issue of violence, and GOD's attitude toward those that repeatedly use violence:
Psalms 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Zephaniah 1:9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Psalms 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Malachi 2:16-17 "I hate [...] a man's covering his wife with violence, as well as with his garment." says the Lord Almighty...."You have wearied the Lord with your words." "How have we wearied him?" you ask. By saying "all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pl