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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month The Chillicothe Gazette chillicothegazette.com: "Child abuse is one of the greatest tragedies of our times. It doesn't have to be. We can prevent it by building communities that are committed to families and to the support and services they need to raise strong, healthy and successful children. That begins with awareness. Ross County agencies concerned with the prevention of child abuse in our community participate in a national tradition of observing April as Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month." From The Chillicothe Gazette

Heartbeat...Tax Laws...Keep an eye on those Abortion Laws!

Ohio Heartbeat Bill
From The Columbus Examiner

Abortion Tax Issues?
From NPR

Abortion rights are in the news again...surprise, surprise. I think I'll let two of my bumper stickers speak for me this morning:

"How can you trust me with a child, if you can't trust me with a choice?"

AND

"Men who change diapers change the world."

Let's keep our eyes, ears, and minds open!

Army of Princesses...

What can be more dangerous than that which arrives quietly and unannounced...that which works on one's subconscious...depositing its poisons deep within, the affects of which only rear their ugly heads years later in the form of eating disorders, mood disorders, lack of self-esteem and a general disposition of "non-enlightened" and most definitely just "not happy."

Well, here is one such source, I'd posture: The Princess Complex.

And a new book that explores it: "Cinderella Ate My Daughter" by Peggy Orenstein.

Saving Our Daughters From an Army of Princesses From NPR News

One good sign? I just reserved the copy from the library, and I'm #17 in line. Fantastic!

47 Years & Counting...

From NPR's "Fresh Air"

Stirring Up the Feminine Mystique 47 Years Later

Another excellent interview by Terry Gross. This time she tackled a large range of topics and dabbled into the personal history of Evergreen State College in Washington's professor and author Stephanie Coontz.

Coontz's new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, seems to be an excellent collection of interviews and reflections of the affects of Betty Friedan's now notorious description of the "problem without a name."

An interview well worth listening to!

BBC News - Teachers' union warns of dangers of online 'abuse'

From the BBC.

BBC News - Teachers' union warns of dangers of online 'abuse': "More and more teachers are getting abused online - and it is parents, not just pupils doing the bullying.
The National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) is telling its members to be more willing to take on the adult bullies.
It has told BBC Radio 5 live that members should be more prepared to take action if parents have made potentially libellous comments on websites..."

Charged with beheading wife, NY man to claim abuse

Charged with beheading wife, NY man to claim abuse: "By CAROLYN THOMPSON
The Associated Press

Saturday, January 8, 2011; 3:12 PM

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- It has been nearly two years since Muzzammil Hassan directed police officers in this serene Buffalo suburb to the decapitated remains of his estranged wife inside the Muslim-oriented television station the couple ran.
With his second-degree murder trial set to start, the question for jurors may be less about whether Hassan killed Aasiya Zubair Hassan, 37, after she filed for divorce than about why..."

The Praxis Safety and Accountability Audit: Practicing a “Sociology for People”

From the September issue of Violence Against Women
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The Praxis Safety and Accountability Audit: Practicing a “Sociology for People”

Jane M. Sadusky Private Consultant, Madison, WI
Rhonda Martinson Battered Women's Justice Project, Minneapolis, MN, rmartinson@bwjp.org
Kristine Lizdas Battered Women's Justice Project, Minneapolis, MN
Casey McGee Praxis International, St. Paul, MN

Abstract

Ellen Pence has crafted the Praxis Safety and Accountability Audit (Safety Audit) on the social change foundation of the battered women’s movement, the idea of a coordinated community response to domestic violence, and institutional ethnography’s emphasis on asking questions from the standpoint of people in their everyday lives. Conducted by an interagency team of advocates and practitioners, the Safety Audit uses interviews, observations, and text analysis to examine the ways in which institutions standardize and coordinate workers’ actions to produce interventions and outcomes that enhance or diminish safety for battered women and their children. With the Safety Audit, Pence has provided a new and distinctive tool for community change.