via Office on Women’s Health: Children in homes where one parent is abused may feel fearful and anxious. They may always be on guard, wondering when the next violent event will happen.3 This can cause them to react in different ways, depending on their age: Children in preschool. Young children who witness intimate partner violence Read More >

via Nicole Gallucci, Mashable: In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Instagram co-launched a powerful campaign to help raise awareness on social media. The #RealConvo Campaign — spearheaded by both Instagram and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP,) an organization that helps those affected by suicide — encourages people to use the hashtag to Read More >

via Terry Gross, NPR: Many women have a hard time admitting — even to themselves — that they’re being abused by their husband or partner. Suzanne Dubus’ first husband hit her, but still, she didn’t initially identify herself as a victim of abuse. “I attributed it to alcohol,” Dubus says. “I knew that his father Read More >

“Relationship violence is a combination of a number of different tactics of abuse that are used to maintain power and control — which are the words in the very center of the wheel. The center is surrounded by different sets of behaviors that an abusive partner uses in order to maintain this power and control. Read More >