Fresh Air from WHYY – originally aired July 29, 2009. Terry Gross interviews poet Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, whose collection of poems, Slamming Open the Door, documents the aftermath of the murder of her daughter Leidy Bonanno. Leidy was found dead in her apartment in 2003, strangled with a telephone cord by an ex-boyfriend. She had [...]
Archive for October, 2009
On The Page, Poet Mourns Daughter’s Murder
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fran’s story
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Back in 1981 I was a stay-at-home mom (former RN), married to a prominent physician in the community. I knew my husband was controlling, and did not manage his anger well, because he yelled a lot, and I was not perfect . He made me feel terribly small as a woman, wife and mother, and [...]
legislative update: health care reform
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today House Democratic leaders unveiled their health care reform legislation, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by dozens of congressional supporters, explained that few pieces of legislation define the character of a nation- health care reform will shape future generations, “progress will be measured by the success of the American family to [...]
Father accused of murdering his 15-year-old daughter in ‘honour killing’ told her to ‘kiss her youngest brother goodbye’
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged domestic violence, domestic abuse, jewish, violence against women, abuse, physical abuse, financial abuse, jewish women international, verbal abuse, relationship, JWI on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Lucy Ballinger for MailOnline, October 21, 2009 A schoolgirl murdered by her father in an ‘honour killing’ was told to kiss her brother goodbye the day she went missing, a court has heard. Mehmet Goren, 45, told his daughter Tulay, 15, to let her brother embrace her one last time in an emotional farewell, [...]
Tracy
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was raised in a very secular home. Though my mother was Jewish by blood, the only real mention of G-d was a family member telling me that G-d punishes the wicked and that bad things happen to bad people. I tried very hard to be good. When I was 17, I was in a [...]
elder abuse
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A 91-year-old Spokane woman died after she was found living in squalor, suffering severe neglect at the hands of her grandson. A 60-year-old Ottawa County woman spent four months behind bars for abusing her elderly father. Nearly five million cases of elder abuse occur each year, but 85% go unreported. The typical victim of elder [...]
advocacy break: what’s helping and hurting DV victims right now
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every word counts in domestic violence reporting This year, for DVAM, JWI is focusing on the media. Last week we issued an action alert asking our supporters to send letters to ten major newspapers across the country – calling on journalists to tell the whole story when reporting incidents of domestic violence. Nobody has been [...]
Eggshells and Tightropes
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I. eggshells are fragile they easily break you walk on them carefully, for safety’s sake. And yet with each step you surely know as eggshells come and eggshells go that break they will with a crunch and crackle and then you will feel the collar and shackle. II. A tightrope, that’s different that you can [...]
Heather Thompson
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From a June 2009 Today show report: When Heather Thompson learned her ex-husband was about to be released from prison some 15 years after he beat her to within an inch of her life — the prison from which he had written her a letter in which he vowed to finish the job when he [...]
Deborah’s story: “Truth Heals”
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I started my journey of healing, one of my strongest memories was the voice of my inner child screaming, “Please don’t hurt me, Daddy!” Oh, he didn’t beat me. Instead, his violence took the form of molesting me, starting at the age of two, raping me at the age of nine and continuing to [...]
CNN: ‘Dance’ judge Murphy says she was abused wife
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watch Mary Murphy’s October 20th interview with Larry King. By Alan Duke published on CNN.com, October 21, 2009 LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — TV dance judge Mary Murphy said singer Chris Brown’s attack on his girlfriend, Rihanna, prompted her to talk publicly about spousal abuse that she says she suffered first as a teenage bride [...]
Man gets 15 years for biting off part of ex-girlfriend’s nose
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Prosecutors call incidents surprisingly common in family violence cases By Tricia Bishop published in The Baltimore Sun, October 20, 2009 A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for biting off a portion of his former girlfriend’s nose, a disturbingly intimate form of violence that prosecutors say is surprisingly prevalent in [...]
Causing Pain: Real Stories of Dating Abuse and Violence
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This 2006 Emmy nominated film about teen dating abuse and violence shows real teens telling their stories of dating abuse and violence. The film describes how dating abuse and violence starts, how it progresses, how the abuser acts, and how to recognize it.
Abused Heiress – Anne Scripps Douglas
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, battered women, domestic abuse, domestic violence, dv, emotional abuse, family violence, financial abuse, jewish, physical abuse, psychological abuse, relationship abuse, relationship violence, sexual abuse, spousal abuse, violence against women on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Anne Scripps Douglas lived the typical life of a battered woman — the whispered telephone calls, the lies to friends and family, the coded messages to the few she could trust. Like a frightened animal she jumped at every loud sound, each ring of the phone, and most of all at the drunken curses of [...]
A Woman’s Glory
Posted in 31 days 2009, tagged abuse, domestic abuse, domestic violence, financial abuse, jewish, jewish women international, JWI, physical abuse, relationship, verbal abuse, violence against women on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I keep looking in the mirror and crying. I can’t stand to see myself. My hair was down below my waist. I hadn’t cut it in over twenty years. Now look at me. He didn’t speak to me during supper. He had been calling me all day, but I was working in the garden, so [...]
