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B∑N "Domestic Violence and Abuse: Signs of Abuse and Abusive Relationships." //Helpguide.org: Understand, Prevent and Resolve Life's Challenges//. Web. 06 Dec. 2010. . This cite is talking about how bad the problem domestic abuse and domestic violence. Domestic abuse is also call asspousal abuse. It is when a person in a marriage or intimate relationship, often the man, tries to control the relationship. They are saying that emotional abuse is often overlooked completely, even though it leaves worse scars. Emotional abuse leaves long-lasting deep scars. Also noticing domestic abuse and calling someone out on it is the quickest way to ending it.

B∑N Web. 06 Dec. 2010. . This cite was useful to me, because it gave me a better understanding of what domestic abuse is by giving me a definition written by the California Attorney General. The definition is long but it was pretty much saying that domestic violence is an ongoing pattern of verbal and physical abuse. It is saying that it is also when a person is recklessly or intentionally trying to hurt someone physically and/or emotionally.

B∑N "Your Tools for Living - Shalom Bayit." //Your Tools for Living - JF&CS of Atlanta//. Web. 06 Dec. 2010. . Shalom Bayit is an organization that helps people (mostly women) who face physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in a short or long-term program. It is a good name for the program, because shalom bayit literally translates to peace in the home which is the opposite of domestic abuse. Shalom Bayit focuses mainly on the Jewish community but it is also very helpful for other people too. The program helps educate people, and tries to keep the myth that there is o violence in Jewish homes true.

B∑N Coalition, At Work. "Facts & Statistics on Domestic Violence." //Safe@work Coalition Home Page//. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. . This cite was very helpful to me, because it gave me a lot of the statistics about domestic violence and it also showed me how frequently people get beaten by their spouse. The most interesting fact was that victims of domestic abuse costs employers 3 to 5 billion dollars a year because of days when people don't come and because when they do the work they produce isn't as good.

B∑N "PNG Women Worst Affected by Domestic Violence." //ABC.net.au//. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. . A recent studied hosted by the Australian government said that women in Papua New Guinea face high levels of violence against them and could maybe be the worst affected by domestic abuse/violence. The studies showed that women are being beaten by their husbands and more are being forced into having sex.

R∑∑D Smith, Melinda, and Jeanne Segal. "Domestic Violence and Abuse: Signs of Abuse and Abusive Relationships." //Helpguide.org//. Help Guide, Nov. 2010. Web. 07 Dec. 2010. . This website talks about reasons for abuse and how to locate abuse in a relationship. It also gives people advice on how to deal with an abusive partner. The website also shows the different kinds of domestic violence, like teen dating violence. This Website is all about helping people recognize their abuse.

R∑∑D The State of Georgia. "Georgia Domestic Violence Crisis Support Resources." //Aardvarc.org//. The State of Georgia, 29 June 2010. Web. 7 Dec. 2010. . This website's main focus is to educate citizens of Georgia about places that will help people deal with abusive partners in Georgia. Also, this website has a number of book recommendations on subjects that deal with domestic violence in a relationship. This website also has websites and contact information for different abuse treating non-profit companies in each county in Georgia. This website will help us to learn about domestic violence in Georgia.

R∑∑D //Ncadv.org//. Natonal Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Jan. 2007. Web. 9 Dec. 2010. . This cite is a pdf file. It focuses on facts about domestic abuse that a reader may not know about. It gets a lot of its facts from government agencys like the department of justice. This website is well informed by its goverment sources, and that is why I like it as one of my sources.

R∑∑D MSV. "Men Stopping Violence." //Men Stopping Violence - Home//. Spring 2010. Web. 09 Dec. 2010. . This is a website that focuses on getting men to stop harming their children and spouses through domestic abuse. This cite tears down sociaty norms that tell men that they need to be oppresive towards their family. This website also has people called Men Stopping Violence Allies who are men that pledge to stop vilence in their own homes. I like this site because it focuses on the other side of the problem, the men.

R∑∑D HHS. "Domestic Violence Facts." //At Health Mental Health//. Department of Health and Human Services, 29 Dec. 2009. Web. 08 Dec. 2010. . The Department of Health and Human Services relesed an overview of domestic violence in the United States. This cite views domestic abuse as "a critical health problem." That is the conectionthat the department of HHS has a connection to domestic abuse. I like this website because it is backed up with good research.