by Dan DeMarle | May 23, 2023 | Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pattern of behaviors used to gain or maintain power and control. At The Hotline, our frame of reference for describing abuse is the Power and Control Wheel developed by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, MN. In the diagram below,...
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 7, 2023 | Domestic Violence
“When someone is shot dead, the children who live on that block perform much worse on cognitive tests in the days following the murder. The violence captures their minds.”― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
by Dan DeMarle | Mar 23, 2020 | Covid-19, Domestic Violence
From WXXI Connections “The coronavirus pandemic is having an effect on the number of calls made to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Hotline staff report that a growing number of callers say abusers are using COVID-19 as a reason to further isolate...