txmomof3's blog

The Save Haven laws are designed to protect people who have a baby and decide for whatever reason that they can't take care of their child for whatever reason. They can drop their child off at a fire station, hospital, or police station without criminal charges being pursued against them. I really do think the law has good intentions, but there will be no perfect law. From what I have heard about the law, it has saved many baby's lives. Like most laws, they vary from state to state, and can be confusing. I do not think a person who is panicked and feels the need to abandon a baby is going to take the time to look at the laws in that state about it. Someone must be really scared and desperate if they feel the need to abandon a baby. I also concerned about the children that are abandoned. Number one is that they are still alive. They may have self-esteem issues because they were abandoned if they are told about it. Also, their history will not be known so the medical history can not be known, which can be a big problem for these children.  Read More »

Last year, I never heard of blogging. Now that I know of it, I think it is great. There are a lot of benefits to blogging and my list of blogging benefits may be different than yours, but I think we all can agree on some of them.

 My list of the benefits of blogging:

1) When I am having a bad day, I can type it all out.

2)To share current events, and read other's posts about current events.  Read More »

 Hair stylists being trained to recognize domestic violence

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nashua – Hair stylists in New Hampshire and nationally are being trained to recognize signs of domestic violence among customers and refer them to centers that help victims.

The effort, called "Cut It Out," is targeting stylists because women often talk about their personal lives in salons, said Maureen McDonald, spokeswoman for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.  Read More »

I went to this ceremony and it was beautiful. They sang Silent Night. A crime victim's advocate spoke. An employee from the District's Attorney's office played "Fragile" by Sting on his guitar. The Director of Juvenile Probation read a poem. A judge was the keynote speaker. The ceremony was held at the Central Presbyterian Church and their choir sang. Two members of the military spoke and the tree was lit. As a victim of domestic violence, I put an angel ornament on the tree with all the other victims of crime that were there. Here is the write up my local newspaper put in the newspaper about it:  Read More »

Domestic violence, unfortunately, is a serious problem in the United States. A lot of women (who are usually the victims of domestic violence) are getting help with being the victims of domestic violence. There are also classes and groups to help the people that are the cause of domestic violence.

Prevalence of Domestic Violence

• Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year.
• Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
• Nearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey.
• Nearly 25 percent of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date at some time in their lifetime, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted from November 1995 to May 1996.
• Thirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.
• In the year 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner.
• Intimate partner violence is primarily a crime against women. In 2001, women accounted for 85 percent of the victims of intimate partner violence (588,490 total) and men accounted for approximately 15 percent of the victims (103,220 total).
• While women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are five to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner.
• In 2001, intimate partner violence made up 20 percent of violent crime against women. The same year, intimate partners committed three percent of all violent crime against men.
• As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy.
• Women of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate.
• Male violence against women does much more damage than female violence against men; women are much more likely to be injured than men.
• The most rapid growth in domestic relations caseloads is occurring in domestic violence filings. Between 1993 and 1995, 18 of 32 states with three year filing figures reported an increase of 20 percent or more.
• Women are seven to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner.

Domestic Homicides  Read More »

Saddam Hussein was executed tonight (which is actually Saturday in Iraq). I can't say I am glad about his death. It does bring an end to his reign of terror.

Iraqi TV says Saddam Hussein executed

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers

BAGHDAD, Iraq -        Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled        Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, was taken to the gallows and executed Saturday, Iraqi state-run television reported.  Read More »

By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com

The number of domestic violence incidents in the United States is staggering. According to Los Angeles County's Domestic Victim's Handbook called "It Shouldn't Hurt to Go Home," more than three million domestic violence incidents are reported each year. Of those, 4,000 people are killed by their partner.  Read More »

Star-Ledger Staff

The state Senate yesterday voted to overturn a 67-year-old state law that has prevented adopted adults from obtaining their birth certificates identifying their biological family.

Following a brief debate over whether the privacy of biological mothers should trump the right of adoptees, the Senate, in a 26-12 vote, passed a bill to open birth records. State law has sealed these records since 1940. The measure still faces a test in the Assembly.  Read More »