http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/posts/5 en-us A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents, and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a federal report. 18% of all children 17 and younger were living in poverty in 2007, up from 17% in 2006. The percentage of children with at least one parent working full time was 77% in 2007, down from 78% in 2006. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/child-poverty-rising-report-says http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/child-poverty-rising-report-says If nothing else, the recession is serving as a stress test for the American safety net. How prepared have we been for sudden and violent economic dislocations of the kind that leave millions homeless and jobless? http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/a-homespun-safety-net http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/poverty-abuse/a-homespun-safety-net The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance in a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees.   http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/new-policy-permits-asylum-for-battered-women http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/new-policy-permits-asylum-for-battered-women More than 2,400 children under 2 were murdered in the USA from 2001 to 2005, almost twice the number killed in car accidents, the study says. Children this age account for about half of all homicides of children under 14. The murder rate for babies this age — 6 per 100,000 children — is 10 times higher than the rate for children 7 to 8 years old, and even higher than the rate for 15- and 16-year-olds, the study says. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/educating-dads-may-help-protect-babies-from-abuse http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/educating-dads-may-help-protect-babies-from-abuse "There's not enough outrage," lamented one women's rights activist at a candlelight vigil for the three women cut down last Tuesday night in a Pittsburgh-area aerobics class. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted, only 75 people showed up to mourn Heidi Overmier, 46, Elizabeth Gannon, 49, and Jody Billingsley, 38, massacred by a man, who didn't know them, simply because they were women. That's unusual as the vast majority of femicide victims are killed by their intimate partners or male relatives. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/femicide-theres-not-enough-outrage http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/femicide-theres-not-enough-outrage We’ve seen this tragic ritual so often that it has the feel of a formula. A guy is filled with a seething rage toward women and has easy access to guns. The result: mass slaughter. We have become so accustomed to living in a society saturated with misogyny that the barbaric treatment of women and girls has come to be more or less expected. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/women-at-risk http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/news/women-at-risk From whom are the world's women being saved? From themselves? From just the women and girls in the developing world? Or are those the only women and girls who need saving? Everything's peachy in the developed world, is it? And then there is this: Can the lives of women and girls, anywhere, be changed if the lives and men and boys aren't changed, too? http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/08/heres-your-big-chance-to-ask-what-about.html http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/08/heres-your-big-chance-to-ask-what-about.html Williamsport Judge Richard A. Gray has decided to give primary physical custody of the child who lost both parents in the Easter 2007 murder- suicide to the father's family in Williamsport. Ben Barone shot and killed his wife Jodi Barone during a planned custody exchange of their daughter April 8, 2007. Jodi's mother had been fighting for custody. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/custody-news/family-of-man-who-killed-wife-self-gets-custody http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/custody-news/family-of-man-who-killed-wife-self-gets-custody A Fayette County man accused of running over over his wife with his car and killing her wants his parents to have legal custody of two of his children. In addition, he wants the cousins of a third adopted child to have custody of that youngster. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/custody-news/man-kills-wife-now-wants-to-control-custody http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/custody-news/man-kills-wife-now-wants-to-control-custody A family torn apart after a fatal shooting is now in a heated fight over where to place the victim's children.On July 9, 24-year-old Tasha Norris was fatally shot. Her husband, John Norris, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Despite that, his wishes for who will have custody of his children are being considered by child services. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/custody-news/man-accused-of-shooting-and-killing-wife-asks-for-children-to-be-moved-to-safer-home http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/info/custody-abuse/custody-news/man-accused-of-shooting-and-killing-wife-asks-for-children-to-be-moved-to-safer-home