<str<strong>on</strong>g>Through</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Their</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Eyes</str<strong>on</strong>g> • Addresses <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> ph<strong>on</strong>e numbers for Federal Representatives can be found at www.house. gov or by calling 202.244.2131. • Washingt<strong>on</strong> State Legislative representatives in the State House <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Senate can be found at www1.leg. wa.gov/legislature or by calling 1.800.562.6000. Solving the problem of domestic violence will not be easy, but it is possible. As a society, we need to work purposefully toward changing the attitudes we hold about violence. We can communicate that violence in any form, <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> domestic violence in particular, is not acceptable. We can keep the plight of children who are affected by domestic violence in the forefr<strong>on</strong>t of our thoughts <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> share that message with others. And, we can support increased funding for services <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> research. Real change requires work <strong>on</strong> both global <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> local levels, <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> with your help, we believe that it is possible. Notes: All uncited quotes were taken from interviews c<strong>on</strong>ducted with the speaker by the YWCA. All case stories were taken from participants in the YWCA <strong>Children</strong>’s <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Program. Names <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> identifying details have been changed to protect the identities <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> safety of the YWCA’s clients. 1 “Family <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Preventi<strong>on</strong> Fund <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Fact Sheet,” www.endabuse.org 2 “Health C<strong>on</strong>cerns Across a Women’s Lifespan: 1998 Survey of Women’s Health” The Comm<strong>on</strong>wealth Fund, 1999. New York, NY 3 “Covering <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>: A Guide for Journalists <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Other Media Professi<strong>on</strong>als, Washingt<strong>on</strong> State Coaliti<strong>on</strong> Against <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>,” www.wscadv.org 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid. 6 Patricia Tjaden <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Nancy Thoennes. “Extent, Nature <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> C<strong>on</strong>sequences of Intimate Partner <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>: Findings From the Nati<strong>on</strong>al <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Against Women Survey.” NCJ 181867, July 2000 7 “Covering <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>: A Guide for Journalists <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Other Media Professi<strong>on</strong>als, Washingt<strong>on</strong> State Coaliti<strong>on</strong> Against <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>,” www.wscadv.org 8 Ibid 9 Jeffrey L. Edles<strong>on</strong>, “The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Woman Abuse,” <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Against Women 5(1999):2 10 Adapted from Minnesota Center Against <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> & Abuse, “How <strong>Children</strong> Are Involved in Adult <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>: Results From A Four City Teleph<strong>on</strong>e Survey,” http://www.mincava.umn.edu/ link/documents/children/children.doc 11 Adapted from Susan Schechter, “Exp<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>ing Soluti<strong>on</strong>s for <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Poverty: What Battered Women with Abused <strong>Children</strong> Need from <str<strong>on</strong>g>Their</str<strong>on</strong>g> Advocates,” http://www.vaw.umn. edu/documents/exp<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>in/exp<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>in.html 12 Adapted from Robin Karr- Morse <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Meredith S. Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery (New York: Atlantic M<strong>on</strong>thly Press, 1997). 13 Lundy Bancroft, Speaking at the <strong>Children</strong>’s Justice C<strong>on</strong>ference, Bellevue, WA, 2004 14 Kellie Rogers, Advocate, YWCA <strong>Children</strong>’s <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Program 15 Adapted from Next Door, www.nextdoor. org/children.html, 2002 16 Adapted from the South King County Community Network, http://www.skccn. com/helpkids/adults.htm 17 Adapted from the South King County Community Network, http://www.skccn. com/helpkids/todo.htm 18 Adapted from U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Delinquency Preventi<strong>on</strong>, “Safe From the Start: Taking Acti<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Children</strong> Exposed to <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g>,” http://ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/summary_ safefromstart/chap3.html 19 Jeffrey L. Edles<strong>on</strong>, “Should Childhood Exposure to Adult <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Be Defined as Child Maltreatment Under the Law?” http://www.mincava.umn.edu/link/ documents/shouldch/shouldch.shtml 20 Washingt<strong>on</strong> State <str<strong>on</strong>g>Domestic</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Violence</str<strong>on</strong>g> Fatality Review Project, www.wscadv. org/projects/FR/02_FR_report.pdf. 21 Lundy Bancroft, When Dad Hurts Mom: Helping Your <strong>Children</strong> Heal from the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse (Bost<strong>on</strong>: Putnam’s S<strong>on</strong>s, 2004), 262. 25
26 Chapter 5 | <str<strong>on</strong>g>Through</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Their</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Eyes</str<strong>on</strong>g>