Barbara Mills is the Executive Director of Barbara Mills Enterprises and the founder of Sister’s In Solidarity. SiS is a not for profit and non funded support group for battered and abused women. Barbara has over 25 years experience on speaking out publicly and advocating for change within the judicial system. She is located in Toronto, Canada.(For more information please refer to ‘About the Founder‘).
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Our Website is continually being updated. Our mandate is to provide information on a regular basis to assist victims of domestic violence and their supporters
A message to women who are currently in a relationship that is volatile.
You are not alone and you should not be afraid to speak out and seek help.
In Ontario you can call the Assaulted Women’s Helpline who can
assist women in 154 languages, 24 hours a day.
They can be contacted by calling (416) 863.0511
Toll Free (Ontario) 1.866.863.0511
www.awhl.org : U.S.A. 1.800.799.(SAFE) 7233
Barbara Mills
Sister’s in Solidarity recommends you know your rights as a parent and as a victim of domestic violence.
The following link refers to Ontario Family Law
www.lisagelman.com/child-custody
One in ten men say it’s OK to hit a woman if she makes him angry: Alberta survey
CALGARY — Nearly one in 10 Alberta men believes it’s OK to physically assault a woman if she does something to make him angry.
A telephone survey, conducted in February by Leger Marketing, quizzed 1,000 Alberta men about their attitudes on gender equity and domestic violence and found that 1 in 10 found it acceptable to hit women in at least some circumstances.
That’s one of the startling findings of a recent survey examining men’s attitudes toward domestic violence. And while the survey results indicate awareness about domestic violence is on the rise in Alberta, it also makes it clear the province still has a long way to go.
The telephone survey, conducted in February by Leger Marketing, quizzed 1,000 Alberta men about their attitudes on gender equity and domestic violence.
The results of the survey were released in Calgary Monday, when the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) hosted its annual “Breakfast With the Guys” fundraiser, an event aimed at empowering men and boys to take a stand against domestic violence. (more…)
HOW DO WE REACH YOUNG WOMEN FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT DOMESTIC BATTERING IS NOT ACCEPTABLE?
CHRIS BROWN IS NOT A MAN FOR THEM TO LOOK UP TO, BUT ONE TO FEAR!
With all the public awareness available to young women to denounce woman abuse, it becomes a mystery that they will condone and publicly promote it happening to them. The tragedy is they don’t realize the harmful effects it has on victims or how many young women are maimed for life or killed in the act of violence. Through their immaturity they think it is a privilege to be abused by a ‘rock’ star. How sad for them that their thinking is so twisted. When entertainers abuse their girl-friends and spouses their persona is open to public scrutiny, as it should be. It would be expected that their fan base would hold them accountable and denounce their behaviour. Apparently, no so with Chris Brown! Instead star frenzied girls are posting comments like ‘he can beat me anytime’. These girls should be ashamed of their postings. Maybe a forced visit a battered women’s shelter will give them a better visual of what it is like to be battered. It would be a well learned lesson in life which might change their attitude and perception of what is and what is not acceptable in society. Condoning violence and abuse of women is not amusing nor is it appropriate regardless of who the batterer is. Chris Brown and his handlers need to speak opening and publicly about his actions and not excuse, minimize, downplay nor condone them. Until then his concerts and recordings should be boycotted.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/horrible-reactions-to-chris-brown-at-the-grammys
February 5, 2012
KFC Canada
101 Exchange Avenue
Vaughan, ON
L4K 5R6
Attention: Director of Marketing
Re: Inappropriate Advertisement
Dear Sir / Madam:
I am writing to you regarding your current advertisement of a menacing and jealous spouse confronting a male sales person on the cost of a KFC family meal. The premise of the advertisement appears to be two-fold, (1) The family size meal is affordable and (2) The man is made to look foolish which is a feeble attempt to put some humour to the allegation and into the sales promotion.
New GPS Device To Help Warn Domestic Violence Victims About Abusers
Original Post here – http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/01/new-gps-device-to-help-warn-domestic-violence-victims-about-abusers/
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s a tragedy that happens all too often. The victim of domestic violence gets a restraining order against her abuser, only to be beaten or killed when that order is ignored.
But now, new technology may give victims a fighting chance.
Maria Santiago knows what it feels like to be afraid. Growing up in the Bronx, and later at the hands of her boyfriend, she was the victim of domestic abuse. (more…)
Parental Alienation as an Expression of Domestic Violence:
The Narcissistic Personality in High-Conflict Divorce
C.A. Childress, Psy.D. (2011)
Domestic violence is embedded in a broader interpersonal context of control, power, and domination.
These same interpersonal features of control, power, and domination also find expression within the parental alienation process through the narcissistically organized psychopathology of the alienating parent (involving a “mixed” Personality Disorder presentation that also includes additional Borderline and Paranoid features). Based on the clinical presentation of parental alienation processes, it is my view that parental alienation represents a variant of domestic violence, but instead of using fists to batter the targeted victim, the abuser in parental alienation uses the child; uses the love that the targeted parent shares with the child, to inflict intense and severe suffering on the targeted-victimized spouse-as-parent. (more…)
Sisters in Solidarity has been contacted by a significant amount of frantic
mothers that cannot understand how they could lose custody of their children
to their abusive spouse. These women also feel that they have been further
traumatized by child protection agencies, court appointed assessors and
judges who have failed to identify that the abusers have manipulated the
system and those that work within it. The dynamic’s and complexities of
domestic violence should be recognized versus ignored in these cases. The
manipulation tactics of abusers and their legal representatives should be
under closer scrutiny especially when the abuser accuses the victim of
having alcohol, drug, mental health and anger issues.
As we have been provided the link below, we have decided to post it, as it
appears to have an element of truth to it.
We would be interested in hearing from mothers who feel the system has
re-victimized them and their children and enabled abusers.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceaSWcwv8Mo
by JULIE LEVINE – original post here
Mrs. Tiger Woods, Mrs. Aaron Spelling, Ms. Britney Spears, even our first lady, Mrs. Obama ….all mothers that you can read about on an almost weekly basis. The media loves to cover them and to expose them. Whether they like it or not.The media does not cover the women who have lost custody battles to perpetrators of domestic violence. Their abusers are almost never exposed. The children in these cases are damaged, their lives stained forever. (more…)
