Materials for Family Advocates/Attorneys
Sample Affidavit
re: batterers tactics; the ways
battering compromises the behavior and choices of battered women;
lethality assessment and, specifically, the likely impact of abuse on
the reasonable expectation of further violence and the behavior of the
client. Created by Kirsten Faisal, Training Coordinator,
Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Confidentiality: An
Advocate's Guide published by Battered
Women's Justice Project contributing authors: Julie Kunce
Field, Deb Goelman, Barbara Hart, Rebekah Lee, Sandra Murphy, Kim
Tolhurst, and Roberta Valente; last revised: September 2007
Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Matter of N-A-J,
unpublished decision, BIA, Nov. 29,. 2001. Stating that
witnessing domestic violence can constitute "extreme cruelty" to
children.
The
Effects of Domestic Violence on Children: Fact Sheet created
by the National Network to End Domestic Violence
In Brief:
Problems Associated with Children's Witnessing of Domestic Violence:
A summary, published by VAWNet, of a research paper by
Jeffrey L. Edleson.
Stage Specific Effects of Domestic Violence: Effects of
domestic violence on children, broken down by age group, with additional
mitigating factors. By Nebraska
Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition,
Adapted from Domestic
Violence: A National Curriculum for Child Protective Services, Anne
Ganley & Susan Schechter, Family Violence Prevention Fund, 1996.
Perpetrator's Use of Children to Control Adult Partner:
Fact sheet with examples of ways perpetrators use children as tools
to control their partner.
