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- General Material
January 2002
Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice
Publisher(s):This article describes an approach to intervention and prevention with children exposed to domestic violence that enforces the concepts of batterer accountability and change.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2002
Kid&TeenSAFE: An Abuse Prevention Program for Youth with Disabilities
Publisher(s):This publication details a project of SafePlace's Disability Services ASAP (A Safety Awareness Program) in Texas and provides its model program materials for use with youth with disabilities.
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January 2002
The Net Effect: Girls and New Media - Executive Summary
Publisher(s):This report describes trends in the Internet habits of girls, their skills in navigating potentially difficult or emotional situations online, and advice on how parents and other adults can empower girls to have safe, positive online experiences.
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- General Material
January 2002
Assessing Risk To Children From Batterers
Overview of potential sources of harm to children from contact with batterers, recommendations for evaluating risk, and assessment guidelines that professionals can apply in cases where a batterer admits to a history of abusiveness.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
June 2000
Expanding Solutions for Domestic Violence and Poverty: What Battered Women with Abused Children Need from Their Advocates
Publisher(s):This paper uses examples from the child welfare system to raise questions about the limitations of current DV advocacy strategies for low-income women. The paper challenges the U.S. traditional battered women's movement to expand its solutions.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
February 2000
Building Bridges Between Domestic Violence Organizations and Child Protective Services
Publisher(s):This document is a resource for advocates seeking to strengthen efforts to help battered women with abused and neglected children.
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- General Material
September 1999
OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Family Disruption and Delinquency
Publisher(s):This bulletin is part of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Youth Development Series, which presents findings from the Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency. This bulletin discusses findings that indicate the composition of families is one aspect of family life that is consistently associated with delinquency.
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- General Material
May 1999
Somewhere to Turn: Making Domestic Violence Services Accessible to Battered Immigrant Women, Chapter 1: Overview of Domestic Violence and Battered Immigrant Issues
Publisher(s):This chapter provides information about domestic violence in immigrant communities, including the power and control dynamics and the barriers faced by immigrant women in accessing services for domestic violence.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
April 1999
Problems Associated with Children's Witnessing of Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
Discusses children's problems associated with exposure and factors that influence the degree of those problems. The author offers a critique of the research methods used to study child witnessing and explores policy implications of the data on this issue.
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- General Material
January 1999
Whose Kids? Our Kids! Teens, Sex, and Sexual Victimization
Publisher(s):This document highlights the importance of parental monitoring to protect their children from become victims of sexual abuse. It provides guidance to parents to effectively monitor their children's activities, whereabouts, and companions without being overly intrusive.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
August 1998
Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Research Findings, and Recommendations
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document highlights some of the legal and cultural trends surrounding custody and visitation decisions and identifies a strong need to consider more carefully the dynamics of domestic violence in these decisions.
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- General Material
July 1997
Parental Influence on Children's Socialization to Gender Roles
Publisher(s):This article describes how the strongest influence on gender role development occurs within the family setting, suggesting that an androgynous gender role orientation may be more beneficial to children than teaching adaptation to binary gender roles.