Domestic Abuse

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Alcohol Facilitates Aggression
A study of drinkers' facial expressions of anger finds that drinking alcohol may place those individuals with a tendency toward anger at greater risk of becoming aggressive.

Domestic Abuse - Getting Help
For those locked into an abusive relationship, getting help is not always as simple as just leaving

Alcohol and Violence Research
An association between alcohol use and all forms of violence has been known for many years. Understanding the association between the two could produce potent new ways to reduce their frequency and their consequences.

Women Can Be Batterers Too
Alcohol may not be a cause of domestic abuse, but it seems to be a catalyst.

Domestic Abuse
Domestic Abuse - what it is what is to blame and what to do about it

How to Report Suspected Child Abuse or Neglect
If you suspect that a child is being abused or neglected, you should call your local Child Protective Services agency or the CPS agency in the State in which the abuse occurred.

Don't Blame Violence On Alcohol
A new scientific study shows that drunks can control their anti-social behavior and can sober up quickly given the right motivation.

Domestic Abuse and Alcohol
Statistics seem to indicate a connection between alcohol and drug abuse and domestic violence, but others question a direct cause-and-effect relationship.

Domestic Abuse - Why Do They Do It?
Whether alcohol and drug abuse is a factor or not, domestic violence and abuse is a very serious problem -- for the victims and the abusers

Childhood Abuse Linked to Alcoholism
New research on seven Native American tribes suggests that tribe members who were abused or sent away to school as children are more likely to have problems with alcohol later in life.

Recovered Memories or False Recall?
The use of photographs by psychotherapists as memory cues for the "recovery" of patients' possible childhood sexual abuse has been called into question by a Canadian study.

Childhood Abuse and Dual Diagnosis
An environment of childhood abuse – sexual, physical or both – appears to play an important role in the development of psychiatric comorbidity among alcoholic patients.

Media Distorts Validity of Recovered Memories
There's a big discrepancy between what science shows about recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse and what's being shown in the media, according to University of Oregon memory researcher Jennifer Freyd.

Kids Exposed to Violence Have More Behavioral Problems
Children who observe violence or are victims of it show more behavior problems than other children, according to a study of 175 children aged 9 to 12.

Not All Angry Drinkers Get Aggressive
A study of three different components of anger – affective, cognitive and behavioral – has found that it is behavioral anger that contributes the most to alcohol-related aggression among both men and women.

Drinking Increases Physical Abuse
Men who drink alcohol and have a predisposition for physical violence toward their female partners are more likely to be violent on the days they drink alcohol, according to a study.

Super Sunday Violence
Is Super Bowl Sunday one of the worse days of the year for domestic violence in homes around the United States, or is it just another urban legend?

Alcohol and Marital Violence
Couples who argue a lot during their first year of marriage are more likely to have violence erupt in later years if the husband is a heavy drinker.

Domestic Violence Varies by Ethnicity
Black and Hispanic couples are two to three times more likely to report male-to-female and female-to-male partner violence than white couples, according to research at the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health.