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Thirteen Ways Any Adult Can Make Ending Domestic
Violence His or Her Business
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Cultivate a respectful attitude toward everyone in your family
and at your workplace. Avoid behaviors that demean or control others.
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When you are angry with your partner or children, respond without
hurting or humiliating them. Model a non-violent, respectful response
to resolving conflicts in your family. Call a domestic violence
or child abuse prevention program for their help if you continue
to hurt members of your family.
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If you have a friend or co-worker who is afraid of being hurt,
offer your support and share the 24-hour, toll-free, National Domestic
Violence Hotline number: 1-800-799-SAFE(7233).
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Learn about domestic violence services in your community. Contribute
your time (volunteer!), resources, or money.
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Call the police if you see or hear violence in progress.
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Talk to your friends and neighbors when they belittle women,
make a joke about violence, or ignore a battered woman.
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Ask your local government to collaborate with domestic violence
programs to conduct a safety audit of your community.
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Write to music producers, movie companies, Internet businesses,
video game producers, and TV stations to speak out about violence.
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Develop a safety campaign in your workplace, neighborhood,
school, or house of worship. Build a consensus among your colleagues
and neighbors that abusive behavior and language are unacceptable.
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Bring together your local domestic violence program staff, parents,
teachers, students, and school adminstrators to start a discussion
about developing a school-based curriculum on dating and family
violence.
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Ask that physicians and other health care professional receive
training about domestic violence and follow the diagnostic and
treatment guidelines about domestic violence, child abuse, and
elder abuse developed by the American Medical Association.
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Co-sponsor a citizens’ monitoring group with your local
domestic violence program to ensure that law enforcement officers,
judges, and probation & parole personnel receive training about
domestic violence and enforce the law.
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EXAMINE YOUR OWN LIFE for violence and oppressive behaviors.
Try to live a VIOLENCE-FREE life.
(Developed by the Texas Council on Family Violence)
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