http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org Stop Family Violence is a national grassroots organization with a mission to organize and amplify our nation’s collective voice against domestic violence, rape, child abuse, child sex abuse, incest, sexual assault, elder abuse, dating violence, stalking, sexual trafficking and prostitution. Together we can stop family violence. en-us Copyright 2008, Stop Family Violence All Rights Reserved. 2008-08-21T16:51:00+00:00 OCEAN contact@stopfamilyviolence.org Various hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 Community based dometic violence services are at the heart of our nation-s response to domestic violence - providing everything from shelter to support groups, legal advocacy, and services to children who have witnessed the violence. Yet in these challenging financial times, funding for these life-saving programs is coming under pressure. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/255 Fourteen years ago, in a desperate action to protect her children from abuse, Holly Collins "went underground" and fled the country with her three young children after the Minneapolis Family Court ruled that they must live with their father, who had fractured Zachary-s skull.  Now they want to come home - but the Minneapolis District Attorney refuses to drop the charges, and has threatened to try to put Holly in jail and deny her any contact with her now adult children the minute she sets foot on U.S. soil. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND TO TAKE ACTION!! http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/520 “I want sex,” he said on the recording. “One or two times. That’s all. You get your green card. You won’t have to see me anymore.” No one knows how widespread sexual blackmail is, but the case echoes other instances of sexual coercion that have surfaced in recent years, including agents criminally charged in Atlanta, Miami and Santa Ana, Calif. And it raises broader questions about the system’s vulnerability to corruption at a time when millions of noncitizens live in a kind of legal no-man’s land, increasingly fearful of seeking the law’s protection. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/511 The anti-immigrant movement pushes racist policies and ideals in order to promote larger white families and smaller black and brown ones. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/506 The U.S. Supreme Court in 1977 ruled the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment for convicted rapists but left the window open for states to impose the ultimate punishment on those who brutally rape children. A new bill introduced in Colorado bill would mandate the death penalty or life in prison for a new crime called "aggravated sexual assault on a child" for that second, more serious class of rape, in cases where the child was 12 or younger. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/502 Neuroscientists have found that “many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development.” The effect is to impair language development and memory - and hence the ability to escape poverty - for the rest of the child’s life. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/500 Military veterans in prison are more than twice as likely to have been convicted for sex offenses than nonveteran inmates, the government reports. Veterans are half as likely to be incarcerated than the overall male population in the first place, researchers found, but 23 percent of the veterans in prison was a sex offender, compared with 9 percent of nonveteran inmates. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/476