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Shackles - Overcoming Domestic Abuse 'by Malaika Cohen with Carole Yeoman'

Shackles is the story of one woman's battle to walk free from 34 years of  abuse - ending her silence and  and how she shaped and determined a life of non-abuse since breaking free.

 

   

 

 

 

Introduction!  

 

If you are reading this you may be taking the steps towards recognizing that there something wrong with your relationship. There still seems to be a belief that domestic violence is somehow a personal matter, it isn't. Domestic Violence is a crime.

Domestic Violence: - Everyone's issue 

Everyone can help bring domestic violence to an end, by simply talking about it openly with friends and co-workers. Breaking the silence is one step closer to help bring this crime to a stop, full stop. "Violence is a crime we are becoming all too familiar with, yet it is the most chronically underreported crime. Each year, an estimated 1 million women and 1.4 million children are assaulted by members of their own families in America. On average 3 women are murdered by the hands of the partners or former partners in US. 2 women die every week in the UK -10 suicides attribute weekly towards this insidious crime.

 

There is no longer any doubt that domestic violence has taken a great toll on the women and children. However men are affected too by domestic violence, 1 in 9 men experience domestic abuse. Violence against women is a critical public health problem that has devastating physical and emotional consequences for women, children and families. The effects are as far reaching as ripples caused on the water by a stone breaking the surface.

Domestic Abuse causes such total breakdown of self-esteem that the victim will almost always believe they are at fault and will undoubtedly believe they cannot escape from their situation. The shame and disgrace they feel often prevents them from crying out for help. One vital fact is not only women are victims of Domestic Abuse; men and children too. But Domestic Abuse is not just about physical violence, though that is often the most visible and life-threatening manifestation. Domestic Abuse covers a wide range of perpetrations from the physical, sexual, psychological and or financial to the emotional. Domestic Abuse is most certainly about power; power over other peoples' life's and it is seldom one isolated incident.

 

Be a Voice and Join This Organizations to Fight Domestic Violence......I Have!

                                 

DOMESTIC ABUSE IS A GLOBAL ISSUE!