[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2611] culture and domestic violence

From: Daphne Greenberg (alcdgg@langate.gsu.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 13:33:11 EDT


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When we interact with students/colleagues who are being abused by male partners, we often forget/ignore/do not know the importance of cultural issues. I just read an article which states that Jewish battered women stay in abusive relationships four to eight years longer than other women. Also, while 50% of women return to men who abuse them, among Orthodox Jewish women, it is 95%.
I am wondering if anyone has other information regarding the intersection between cultural issues and domestic violence.
Daphne


Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
MSC 6A0360
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6
Atlanta, GA 30303-3086
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu



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