Miscellaneous

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Domestic violence is usually defined as physical, emotional, and/or psychological abuse committed within an intimate or family relationship. All too often, acts of physical abuse are part of a pattern of aggression that typically includes controlling behavior, manipulation, threats, and...

Divorces Atomic Bomb: False Abuse Allegations
False allegations of domestic abuse are not just a phenomenon that routinely occur in the United States. Family law attorneys in Canada are similarly complaining about the unfairness and damage caused when a warring parent falsely accuses a spouse of abuse...

The Stress of Festivities Causes Child Abuse
The holidays aren’t over yet. And during the time from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, one largely hidden statistic on the rise is: child abuse. Throughout the season of good cheer, parents are under much more stress than usual...

Australia: Reports of elder abuse soar
The number of elderly Queenslanders reporting they are victims of abuse has surged in Queensland ? and the perpetrators are usually their adult children. Queensland's Elder Abuse Helpline received 651 new cases of abuse in the nine months to March,...

Illegal Immigrants Often Take Abuse in Silence
Dallas, Texas has more than its share of human trafficking in illegal aliens smuggled into this country against their will. Of the approximately 16,000 victims of fraud, force, coercion and abuse per year, about twenty percent wind up in Texas...

MI: Jury awards women $15.4 million for sexual abuse in prison
Jury awards women $15.4 million for sexual abuse in prison 2-2-08 By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press Ten current and former prisoners at the state's Scott Women's Correctional Facility held hands and sobbed as a Washtenaw County jury awarded them...

Domestic Violence
Women's Rights

Domestic Violence
Emotional and verbal abuse qualify as domestic violence

Domestic Violence
Emotional and verbal abuse qualify as domestic violence

Domestic Violence
Steps to avoid

Rightwing Extremism
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

Jury Awards $29M in Elder Abuse Case
Jury Awards $29M in Elder Abuse Case

Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial Elder Abuse alleging seniors are taken advantage of for their finances.

Teacher Student Abuse
Beaufort County agrees to pay $300,000 settlement to abuse victim.

Lawsuit Filed Against Legacy Health Care Facilities for Nursing Home Abuse
Legacy Health Care Facilities Face Class Action Over Allegations of Abuse

Estate Planners Face Elder Abuse Class Action
California Estate Planners Face Elder Abuse Class Action

Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit
Senior Awarded $7.75 Million in Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit