Posts in the "4Th%20December" category
Day 10: 49 calls per day responded to by the Women's Aid 24hr National Freephone Helpline in 2019
Posted on December 04, 2020
The Women's Aid 24hr National Freephone Helpline 1800 341 900 is a service for women experiencing emotional, physical, sexual and financial abuse by a current or former partner. We are also available for family, friends and professionals concerned about women who may be living with domestic violence.
Our Helpline staff and volunteers answered, on average, 49 calls per day in 2019.
The 24hr National Freephone Helpline is open 7 days a week. The Helpline provides vital support and information to individual callers and serves as an access point to other Women's Aid services and to support services and refuges nationwide. The 24hr National Freephone Helpline is free of charge to callers in the Republic of Ireland.
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"As soon as I was pregnant everything changed' - Kate
Posted on December 04, 2017
"My mother passed away when I was a young single parent. I met this guy who instantly put me up on a pedestal. I was grieving and raising a child on my own and here was this man offering me all that I wanted; a loving family, the happy ever after that we all look for. He really wanted a child and as soon as I was pregnant, everything changed.
When I had the baby, it got worse and I realised he wanted me pregnant so he had a bit more control over me.
Permanent link | Categories: Women's Voices 2017 • 4th December 2017 • Day 10
"...I was two months pregnant and he beat me. A couple of days later, I lost the baby." - Nina
Posted on December 04, 2017
"I was two months pregnant and he beat me. A couple of days later, I lost the baby and he said to me, 'You must not have taken care of the baby properly. That's why you miscarried.' What a thing to say to a woman.
As always, all the blame was on me, but it wasn't my fault, I tried to protect us. I lost a second child a couple of years later.
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Day 10: 1 in 8 pregnant women experience abuse
Posted on December 04, 2017
No one ever deserves to be beaten, threatened, raped and insulted. However, nowhere is domestic violence more stark or disturbing than during pregnancy. Women's Aid is deeply concerned about the prevalence of abuse of women during pregnancy and the post-natal period.
Pregnancy does not offer protection to domestic violence. In fact, international research has found that 30% of women who experience domestic violence are physically assaulted for the first time during pregnancy (Child Protection and Welfare Handbook, HSE, 2011).
The Rotunda Hospital conducted research which found that 1 in 8 women surveyed were being abused during their current pregnancy (O'Donnell et all, 2000).
Permanent link | Categories: 16 Facts for 16 Days • 4th December 2017 • Day 10
Day 10: 60% of abuse starts before age 25
Posted on December 04, 2016
In a national survey on domestic violence in Ireland, almost 60% of people who were severely abused said that the abuse started when they were under 25 years old.
Women's Aid hears from young women when their relationship starts to feels unhealthy, often after something has happened that may have made women feel unsafe or uncomfortable. When it feels like he is just 'too into you'. We also hear from women who have been living with domestic violence for some time that the signs that their partners were possessive and controlling were there from the start. But to them and their family and friends, it appeared like they were just 'so into her'.
Permanent link | Categories: 16 days • 2016 • 16 Facts for 16 Days • Day 10 • 4th December 2016
Day Ten: 60% of abuse starts before the age of 25
Posted on December 04, 2014
In a national survey on domestic violence in Ireland, almost 60% of people who were severely abused said that the abuse started when they were under 25 years old.
Women's Aid hears from young women when their relationship starts to feels unhealthy, often after something has happened that may have made women feel unsafe or uncomfortable. When it feels like he is just 'too into you'. We also hear from women who have been living with domestic violence for some time that the signs that their partners were possessive and controlling were there from the start. But to them and their family and friends, it appeared like they were just 'so into her'.
Permanent link | Categories: Day Ten • 4th December 2014 • 16 Facts for 16 Days