Recently in the post Crocodile Tears, some survivors started mentioning how their abusers had treated them during pregnancy and birth. From my reading, this is not uncommon. The secular domestic violence literature and statistical research shows that domestic abuse often starts or gets worse during pregnancy. And I've heard a few horror stories of abusers… Continue reading Pregnancy and Birth – how domestic abuse can affect these special times
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The Connecticut School Shootings: What Can We Say?
I just felt that we needed to say something about the slaughter at the Sandy Hook school in Newtown yesterday. A killing of not only adults, which is horrid enough, but of children. Little children in their school. And why? For what possible reason? Do these evils have anything to do with the evils we… Continue reading The Connecticut School Shootings: What Can We Say?
