by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
There are many reasons an abused partner may choose to remain in their relationship. Faith and ties to their faith community factor in for many. I’m honored to have author Linda M. Kurth sharing from her experience and upcoming memoir. Crazymaking: A form...
by lameredith | | Child Abduction, Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
It’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As I prep for a few book events, including a FaceTime conversation with a Florida book group, The question I get asked the most is always How are the girls now? And just after that, Do your daughters mind you writing and...
by lameredith | Aug 22, 2018 | Domestic Violence
The headlines keep coming. Buried between Chicago mass shootings and the primary elections and Denise Richards joining the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast (is that really news?), there they are. Northern California man with record...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
While de-cluttering my bedroom recently, I found an old magazine that reprinted my first published article in 1993. First posted in Alaska Women Speak, later in The Radical, I wrote it about the epidemic of domestic violence. How novel it seemed at the time to be...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
“I don’t understand how you can do that work. It must be so depressing.” You get used to hearing that sort of comment when working in the trenches of domestic violence (DV). I used to hear it a lot 20 years ago when I was a DV...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
Just over one in three women worldwide have experienced physical and sexual intimate partner violence, according to the World Health Organization. The chances that you won’t know one of them are close to zero. What you do and don’t say can make all...