| Leah has had a difficult life. Raising eight children in an | | | | knowledge and resources for help, many women can |
| abusive household can take its toll. Once she learned | | | | be caught in the controlling grasp of their abuser and |
| the truth however, she was able to free herself | | | | see no clear way to a happier, safer and healthier life. |
| from the horror and now she hopes to help other | | | | The site is not just for the victim. While the abuse |
| women be free from their own lives of terror and | | | | against women website is an offer of real help for |
| pain. Her website contains a wealth of information, | | | | the victim, the website is intended to provide the |
| resources, and help for other victims of Domestic | | | | information for others who might be in a position to |
| Abuse. She has recently upgraded the content and | | | | help stop abuse against women, even though they |
| made it even easier for women to become | | | | are not the direct victim. The site can offer help to: |
| empowered and get the help they need. | | | | 1. A woman looking for answers for the abuse she |
| To help win the fight of abuse against women, | | | | is experiencing in her life. |
| Leah’s first goal is education and empowerment. | | | | 2. Anyone looking to see if what they are |
| To understand and recognize abuse requires that the | | | | experiencing is abuse. |
| victim first recognize when they are being abused. | | | | 3. Parents who wish to understand if their teenage |
| Many forms of abuse against women are covert and | | | | or adult daughter is in an abusive relationship. |
| deceiving. The Abuse Against Women website will | | | | 4. Mothers wanting to know why their child has |
| help those victims identify the type of abuse so they | | | | turned against them and towards the abusing parent. |
| can confront it and be free from it. | | | | 5. Mothers preparing for child custody court battle. |
| Beyond the information needed for identification, the | | | | The site also contains an abuse against women |
| abuse against women website contains links to books | | | | checklist so that women have a way of recognizing |
| and many other resources where abused women can | | | | abusive behavior. For anyone that might suspect |
| learn to empower themselves, confront their abuser | | | | they are a victim of abuse or knows someone who |
| and ultimately achieve freedom from the abuse. Leah | | | | might be, they should visit the Abuse Against |
| hopes that the website will “serve as a learning | | | | Women website and get real information to help |
| tool for women to realize their true worth and | | | | them learn, empower, confront and be free of their |
| hopefully empower them to know that no one has | | | | abuser. |
| the right to abuse them.” Without this | | | | |