MADJU 243 Midterm help

Midterm Chapter 1 Question 1 0 out of 2 points Common expressions of denial include: Answer Selected Answer: c. No one will believe me. Question 2 1 out of 1 points Though devastating, sexual abuse is a rare aspect of domestic vioelnce for most victims. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 3 1 out of 1 points Victims of domestic violence are equally likely to be men as women. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 4 1 out of 1 points Physical abuse might include which of the following behaviors: Answer Selected Answer: e. all of the above Question 5 1 out of 1 points Most women see their partner's abusive tendencies clearly when the relationship begins, but hope he will change. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 1 out of 1 points Emotional abuse is less damaging to victims than physical abuse. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 7 1 out of 1 points According to Herman, the methods used to coerce hostages, political prisoners, survivors of concentration camps, and battered women are surprisingly similar. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 8 1 out of 1 points Domestic violence includes the following tactics: Answer Selected Answer: f. all of the above Question 9 1 out of 1 points Batterers are typically abusive to and jealous of their partners all the time--at home and among friends. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 10 1 out of 1 points Domestic violence includes anyone who has been hit, even once. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 11 1 out of 1 points Most battered women share passivity and indecisiveness in their decision making as a common trait. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 12 1 out of 1 points Women who stay with their abusive partner are at higher risk of being killed than women who leave. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 13 2 out of 2 points According to Pences' research, batterers commonly use the following tactics: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the above Question 14 1 out of 1 points The rationale that battered women stay in abusive relationships because they are mentally unstable is a form of victim-blaming. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 15 1 out of 1 points Often, the threat of violence controls a victim as well as an assault does. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 16 1 out of 1 points Battered women commonly: Answer Selected Answer: b. Have low self-esteem as a consequence of living in an abusive relationship Question 17 1 out of 1 points Many abusive relationships involve the use and/or abuse of alcohol and drugs, but there is not a causal relationship between the two. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 18 0 out of 1 points Domestic violence happens predominantly in the following populations: Answer Selected Answer: a. Alcoholic and substance abusing families. Question 19 2 out of 2 points Walker's theories on the cycle of violence explains: Answer Selected Answer: a. Why victims may remain in the relationship, despite the violence Question 20 1 out of 1 points Myths about domestic violence are Answer Selected Answer: e. B and C Question 21 2 out of 2 points Research conducted by Strauss, Gelles, and Steinmetz: Answer Selected Answer: b. Devised the CTS (Conflict Tactic Scale) which counted the number of "hits" between partners, but did not consider level of force, or other forms of power and control Question 22 1 out of 1 points Common batterer behaviors include: Answer Selected Answer: b. Unrealistic expectations, isolation, and past battering relationships Question 23 1 out of 1 points Due to a lack of resources and high risk, statistically speaking, most women don't ever leave abusive relationships. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 24 1 out of 1 points Emotional Abuse may include the following behavior: Answer Selected Answer: d. A and B Question 25 1 out of 1 points Domestic Violence only applies when there has been a criminal assault. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 26 1 out of 1 points The batterer is the only person in the relationship who should take responsibility for the violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 27 1 out of 1 points Battered women commonly accept responsibility for the abuse, and try to control circumstances so that they don't trigger punishment. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 28 2 out of 2 points Domestic Violence is an attempt by one partner in an intimate relationship to manage the following: Answer Selected Answer: a. Power and Control of their partner Question 29 1 out of 1 points The highest risk factor for men in becoming a perpetrator of domestic violence is growing up witnessing domestic violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 30 1 out of 1 points Men who batter their partners are socially inept. socially inappropriate, or violent in all relationships. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 31 1 out of 1 points Abusive patterns established in a relationship are usually ineffective in divorce and custody cases. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 32 1 out of 1 points When societal institutions do not hold a perpetrators responsible for battering behavior, they collude with them to perpetuate the violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 33 1 out of 1 points Batterer's defense mechanisms may include the following: Answer Selected Answer: e. A, B, and C Question 34 2 out of 2 points Community organizing against domestic violence differs from drunk driving in all the following ways except: Answer Selected Answer: c. Domestic violence is not a law enforcement issue; it is family issue and a social issue. Chapter 2 Question 1 2 out of 2 points The practice of enslavement was practiced and perfected among Mesopotamians who bought their wives, and considered them domestic slaves. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 2 1 out of 1 points Domestic violence has cultural and historical roots based in: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 3 1 out of 1 points Patriarchy is defined as: Answer Selected Answer: b. a system of society ruled by the eldest male of a family, tribe, or community Question 4 2 out of 2 points Because Greek, Roman, and Israeli writing confirmed the subjugation of women to men, they are necessarily misogynist. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 2 out of 2 points "Riding the Stang" was a serious and severe punishment for men who abused their privileges as protector and parent. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 2 out of 2 points Women's need for protection from men in ancient society's created a culture in which they were understood as property Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 7 2 out of 2 points The "Common Scold" was the manner in which courts punished men for using too severe a violence in the disciplining of their wives. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 8 2 out of 2 points The Malleus Maleficarum is Answer Selected Answer: b. a book written arguing that women are predisposed, for a variety of reasons, to being witches Question 9 0 out of 2 points The Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas Answer Selected Answer: a. argues that women are subject to men as man is subject to the Church Question 10 2 out of 2 points Greek poetry and Christian interpretations of the Old Testament argued that women are innately evil. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 11 2 out of 2 points Teaching on Original Sin by early Christians focused on the following lesson: Answer Selected Answer: c. Women were more evil than men, and threatened men, the Church, and the State Question 12 2 out of 2 points Men in Babylonian and Mosaic cultures who married (or had female children) were expected to: Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Question 13 2 out of 2 points Bride Capture was the practice of: Answer Selected Answer: c. raping a woman, and thus claiming her as your wife Question 14 2 out of 2 points Persecution of women as witches effected: Answer Selected Answer: a. Between 200,000 and 10,000,000 women in just 200 years Question 15 2 out of 2 points Women in the American colonies lost their rights as citizens if Answer Selected Answer: b. they married Question 16 2 out of 2 points Familia is the Latin word for family, meaning your wife and children Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 17 2 out of 2 points The meaning of "misogyny" is: Answer Selected Answer: a. a hatred of women Question 18 2 out of 2 points Gratian's Decretum is a good example of how Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 19 2 out of 2 points The "rule of thumb" said that: Answer Selected Answer: c. beating your wife as a method of "compassionate reform" was acceptable so long as the rod you used was no thicker than your thumb Question 20 2 out of 2 points Blackstone's Commentaries of the Law of England, which entrusted men with the "power of chastisement" was discredited in England, but influential in the United States. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 21 2 out of 2 points St. Augustine taught that women: Answer Selected Answer: a. Play a three-fold role as temptress, wife, and mother Chapter 4 Question 1 2 out of 2 points Promising methods for dealing with domestic violence include assigning responsibility for domestic violence responses to trained individuals or squads. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 2 3 out of 3 points Victims commonly withdraw their cooperation in prosecution so that they can reconcile with their abusive partners. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 3 2 out of 2 points Field training in domestic violence changes more attitudes and behaviors than classroom training. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 4 2 out of 2 points Civil systems of law would deal with all the following scenarios, except: Answer Selected Answer: c. violations of the penal law Question 5 2 out of 2 points Civil systems have many remedies, including jail, fines, and mandatory counseling. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 2 out of 2 points Mediation is often a good, safe, expedient alternative for victims. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 7 2 out of 3 points Victims may participate more fully in the prosecution process with which of the following supports (you can select more than one): Answer Selected Answers: b. Increased attention to victim's need for protection d. Available advocates to educate the victim about the legal system Question 8 2 out of 2 points Police should participate in domestic violence intervention throughout the victim's process of education, accessing resources, and getting safe. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 2 out of 2 points Contacting law enforcement is always an option for all victims of domestic violence. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 10 2 out of 2 points Police officers can arrest a domestic violence perpetrator for non-criminal coercion. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 11 2 out of 3 points Battered women are similar to other victims of violent crime in the following ways(you can select more than one): Answer Selected Answers: b. they want perpetrator accountability e. they may have different interests than the system Question 12 2 out of 3 points In most states, women have the following legal options to protect themselves (you can select more than one): Answer Selected Answers: a. divorce or legal separation c. civil protection orders Question 13 2 out of 2 points The role of police in domestic violence intervention should include good referrals to helpful agencies. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 14 2 out of 2 points Which of the following may limit the effectiveness of a protection order? Answer Selected Answer: c. The police department never serves the perpetrator with notice of the order. Question 15 3 out of 3 points Almost 1/3 of battered women are revictimized within 6 months of the assault leading to criminal justice intervention. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 16 2 out of 2 points Civil protection orders may include which of the following orders: Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Question 17 3 out of 3 points Intervention in domestic violence situations is much more effective than prevention activities. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Chapter 5 Question 1 0 out of 1 points The goals of making money and resources available towards domestic violence intervention were simple and clear. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 2 1 out of 1 points Two types of reform have characterized criminal justice responses to domestic violence. They are: Answer Selected Answer: d. Procedures and jurisprudential issues to increase victim participation, and legal sanctioning of perpetrators Question 3 2 out of 2 points Which of the following responses are examples of the protections advocates argued were uncertain and inconsistent for victims: Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Question 4 0 out of 1 points Mobilizing political and fiscal resources toward domestic violence intervention had both symbolic and substantive goals. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 1 out of 1 points The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment concluded that arrest had a deterrence effect on 50% of batterers. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 1 out of 1 points Independent studies indicated that in many communities, prosecution of domestic violence arrests had increased to 65%. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 7 1 out of 1 points The availability of statutes and legislation prohibiting spousal abuse opened the floodgates to widespread challenges to doctrines of family violence as acceptable. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 8 3 out of 3 points Edelson and Syers identify typologies for treatment programs. They are: Answer Selected Answer: e. B, C, and D Question 9 0 out of 2 points There is very little evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of batterer's intervention programs. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 10 0 out of 6 points 'Criminalization" of domestic violence ought to (select all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: c. take domestic violence out of the civil courts where sanctions were ineffective d. address protections that advocates argued weren't really being enforced Question 11 2 out of 3 points Domestic violence is complicated by the following factors(select all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: a. victims may be less interested in deterrence than safety c. the scale is so large, that it is difficult to respond to Question 12 1 out of 1 points The legal response to domestic violence has evolved slowly, and consistently over time. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 13 4 out of 6 points Certainly, deterrence results from the following (select all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: b. prosecution d. penalties Question 14 0 out of 1 points Interestingly, the continued threat of legal sanction had greater impact on perpetrator behavior than arrest did. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 15 0 out of 3 points Legal reform in domestic violence has developed along 3 parallel but separate tracks. They are: Answer Selected Answer: b. Judicial training, training of law enforcement officers, and legislation Question 16 2 out of 2 points Most victims still turn to the civil process, and protection orders, because: Answer Selected Answer: e. C and D Question 17 0 out of 4 points Treatment interventions for batterers vary in important aspects. Please identify all that were identified in this week's reading: Answer Selected Answers: b. the role of alcohol and substance abuse in violence inhibitions c. the significance of surviving child abuse in shaping intimate response as adults d. duration and frequency of meeting with perpetrators Question 18 0 out of 1 points Most states, by the 1990s, had chosen to pursue either criminal or civil remedies for domestic violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Chapter 6 Question 1 1 out of 1 points Women abusing drugs and women addicted drugs should share the same rules and expectations. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 2 2 out of 6 points Three theories currently surround the association between substance abuse and domestic violence. They are (please select all three): Answer Selected Answers: a. Disinhibition Theory d. Disavowal Theory e. Escalation Theory Question 3 1 out of 1 points The Disavowal Theory argues that batterers learn that they can excuse the violence if they have been using alcohol and/or drugs. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 4 0 out of 1 points Men with severe alcohol problems are likely to inflict more serious harm on their partners than non-substance abusing batterers. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 1 out of 1 points The overwhelming coincidence of domestic violence and substance abuse has led most researchers to conclude that one will almost always cause the other. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 6 out of 6 points Domestic violence victims will often rationalize their partner's violence as a result of alcohol because (select all correct answers): Answer Selected Answers: a. she can maintain hope that if he stops drinking, the violence will end b. the perception is widely held among the general population d. she can rationalize why a person who loves her continues to hurt her Question 7 1.5 out of 6 points Bennett presents multiple perspectives on why there is a connection between domestic violence and substance abuse. They include (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: b. Situational c. Ironic f. Partial to Certain Characteristics Question 8 1 out of 1 points It is important for treatment providers in the substance abuse field to help battered women begin to trust the promises of her partner again. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 1 out of 1 points Battered women are at 15 times the risk for alcohol abuse than non-battered women. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 1 out of 1 points It is important for treatment providers in the substance abuse field to help battered women understand that once the drinking stops, the violence will stop. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 11 1 out of 1 points Bennet also argues that there is no direct link suggesting substance abuse causes domestic violence. Rather, he says, there are other factors which influence when a substance abuser may use violence. They include (select the best answer): Answer Selected Answer: d. A and C Question 12 1 out of 1 points The Disinhibition Theory implies that violence is caused by the substance. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 13 1 out of 1 points Abusive men with severe alcohol problems are likely to harm their partners only when they have been drinking. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 14 2 out of 2 points Domestic violence victimization and alcohol addiction are similar in that both happen equally among men and women. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 15 1 out of 1 points The Interaction Theory argues that the interaction of drugs, alcohol, and stress-induced adrenaline and other brain chemicals result in volatility and aggression. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 16 3 out of 3 points Treatment for alcoholics and batterers differ in the following assumptions: Answer Selected Answer: d. A and B Question 17 2 out of 2 points Sheila Blume argued that female alcoholics' experiences differed from males in significant ways. They included (choose the best answer): Answer Selected Answer: a. Shame, stigmitization, and child care options Question 18 1 out of 1 points Many domestic violence shelters deny addicted women access to services because they need to be empowered to deal with their addiction. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 19 1 out of 1 points Drinking behavior, researchers confirmed, is determined largely by the culture's assumptions about the effects of alcohol. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 20 1 out of 1 points Depending upon the study, alcohol abuse among batterers ranges from 16% to 79% Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 21 1 out of 1 points MacAndrew and Edgerton's study on the Dishibition Theory assumed that: Answer Selected Answer: d. people across cultures should respond, physiologically, the same to alcohol Review Test Submission: Mid-Term Exam Content Course 2012MFA-MADJU-243-0888 Test Mid-Term Exam Started 10/00/12 Status Completed Score 88.66667 out of 100 points Time Elapsed 20 minutes out of 2 hours. Instructions Question 1 0 out of 2 points Treatment interventions for batterers vary in important aspects. Please identify those that were identified in the "Criminalization of Domestic Violence" article: Answer Selected Answers: a. underlying assumptions about the causal and restraining mechanisms for violence b. the role of alcohol and substance abuse in violence inhibitions Question 2 3 out of 3 points Domestic Violence is an attempt by one partner in an intimate relationship to manage the following: Answer Selected Answer: a. Power and control of their partner Question 3 2 out of 2 points Blackstone's Commentaries of the Law of England, which entrusted men with the "power of chastisement" was discredited in England, but influential in the United States Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 4 2 out of 2 points The overwhelming coincidence of domestic violence and substance abuse has led most researchers to conclude that one will almost always cause the other. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 2 out of 2 points Participation in the anti-slavery movement led 19th century white women to recognize their own oppression. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 2 out of 2 points Which of the following responses are examples of the protections advocates argued were uncertain and inconsistent for victims: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 7 2 out of 2 points Women who stay with their abusive partners are at higher risk of being killed than women who leave. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 8 2 out of 2 points Gratian's Decretum is a good example of how Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 9 2 out of 2 points The Seneca Falls, New York meeting was coordinated to Answer Selected Answer: b. discuss social, civil, and religious conditions and the rights of women Question 10 2 out of 2 points The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment concluded that arrest had a detterence effect on 50% of batterers. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 11 2 out of 2 points Treatment for alcoholics and batterers differ in the following assumptions: Answer Selected Answer: d. A and B Question 12 2 out of 2 points Teaching on Original Sin by early Christians focused on the following lesson: Answer Selected Answer: c. Women were more evil than men, and threatened men, the Church, and the State Question 13 1.33333 out of 2 points "Criminalization" of domestic violence ought to (select all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: a. increase the certainty of legal responses to victims of domestic violence b. increase the severity of legal responses to domestic violence Question 14 2 out of 2 points It is important for treatment providers in the substance abuse feld to help battered women begin to trust the promises of her partner again. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 15 2 out of 2 points Bennett also argues that there is no direct link suggesting substance abuse causes domestic violence. Rather, he says, there are other factors which influence when a substance abuser may use violence. They include (select the best answer): Answer Selected Answer: d. A and C Question 16 2 out of 2 points Victims commonly withdraw their cooperation in prosecution so that they can reconcile with their abusive partner. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 17 2 out of 3 points Battered women are similar to other victims of violent crime in the following ways (you can select more than one): Answer Selected Answers: b. they want perpetrator accountability e. they may have different interests than the system Question 18 2 out of 2 points Battered women commonly: Answer Selected Answer: b. have low self-esteem as a consequence of living in an abusive relationship Question 19 2 out of 2 points Most victims still turn to the civil process, and protection orders, because: Answer Selected Answer: e. C and D Question 20 2 out of 2 points Walker's theories on the cycle of violence explain Answer Selected Answer: a. Why victims may remain in a relationship, despite the violence Question 21 2 out of 2 points The Disinhibition Theory implies that violence is caused by the substance. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 22 2 out of 2 points Women in the American colonies lost their rights as citizens if Answer Selected Answer: b. they married Question 23 2 out of 2 points Civil systems of law would deal with all the following scenarios, except: Answer Selected Answer: c. violations of the penal law Question 24 2 out of 2 points The 1940s and 1950s saw a change in social work, and domestic violence was acknowledged as a problem for families. It was understood as a problem best understood as: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 25 2 out of 2 points Contacting law enforcement is always an option for all victims of domestic violence. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 26 2 out of 2 points The Disavowal Theory argues that batterers learn that they can excuse the violence if they have been using alcohol and/or drugs. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 27 2 out of 2 points Civil protection orders may include which of the following orders: Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Question 28 2 out of 2 points The rationale that battered women stay in abusive relationships because they are mentally unstable is a form of victim-blaming. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 29 2 out of 2 points Field training in domestic violence changes more attitudes and behaviors than classroom training. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 30 2 out of 2 points The meaning of "misogyny" is: Answer Selected Answer: a. a hatred of women Question 31 2 out of 2 points The Progressive Era diminished earlier education on domestic violence by claiming that: Answer Selected Answer: d. A and B Question 32 1 out of 2 points Bennett (substance abuse article) presents multiple perspectives on why there is a connection between domestic violence and substance abuse. They include (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: d. A Chemical Agent f. Partial to Certain Characteristics Question 33 2 out of 2 points Women's need for protection from men in ancient societies created a culture in which they were understood as property. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 34 0 out of 2 points At the turn of the 18th century, family violence was part of a reform movement and community social workers took women's safety seriously. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 35 2 out of 2 points Domestic violence has cultural and historical roots based in: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 36 2 out of 2 points Young women's involvement in Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s distracted them from women's issues and domestic violence advocacy was quiet for 10-15 years. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 37 3 out of 3 points When societal institutions do not hold a perpetrator responsible for battering behavior, they collude with them to perpetuate violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 38 0 out of 2 points "Clitoridectomies" were a widespread medical solution to the disease doctors were calling "female hysteria" Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 39 2 out of 2 points Myths about domestic violence are: Answer Selected Answer: e. B and C Question 40 0 out of 2 points Widespread organizing by women, and heightened awareness of domestic violence, lead to shelters as the primary solution for battered women. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 41 2 out of 2 points There is very little evidence to evaluate the effectiveness of batterer's intervention programs. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 42 2 out of 2 points Two types of reform have characterized criminal justice responses to domestic violence. They are: Answer Selected Answer: d. Procedures and juris prudential issues to increase victim participation, and legal sanctioning of perpetrators Question 43 2 out of 2 points Battered women are at 15 times the risk for alcohol abuse than non-battered women. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 44 2 out of 2 points The "rule of thumb" said that: Answer Selected Answer: c. beating your wife as a method of "compassionate reform" was acceptable so long as the rod you used was no thicker than your thumb Question 45 2 out of 2 points Domestic violence happens predominantly in the following populations: Answer Selected Answer: d. equally among populations, despite class, race, education, income, or faith. Question 46 1.33333 out of 2 points Certainly, deterrence results from the following (select all that apply) Answer Selected Answers: b. prosecution d. penalties Question 47 2 out of 2 points Domestic Violence includes the following tactics: Answer Selected Answer: f. all of the above Question 48 3 out of 3 points According to Pence's research, batterers commonly use the following tactics: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the above Question 1 0 out of 1 points By writing that images and expectations of Black women are "super and subhuman," Evelyn White meant that: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the Above Question 2 2 out of 4 points Interpersonal styles of women of color include (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. Traditional d. Culturally Immersed Question 3 0 out of 1 points The criminal justice and judicial system have established parity (equality in sentencing) between battered women who kill their abusers, and batterers who kill their partners. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 4 0.5 out of 1 points Elder abuse is often compared to child abuse. This is an inappropriate comparison for all the following reasons (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. it demeans older women's competence Question 5 0 out of 2 points Lucy Munoz expresses that, in her experience, " . . . the people most important to Latinas--that is, their [blank]--are also least likley to support them if they leave." (Fill in the blank) Answer Selected Answer: b. their children Question 6 0 out of 1 points Domestic violence can be traced back through Native Amercian families and traditions long before they were colonized by Europeans. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 7 1 out of 1 points Violence in lesbian relationships occurs at about twice the frequency as violence in non-gay relationships. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 8 0 out of 1 points Battered women with disabilities have fewer options because: Answer Selected Answer: b. many facilities do not have appropriate facilities for disabled women Question 9 1 out of 1 points Personal barriers to leaving include shame, fear, lack of personal resources, and lack of emotional support. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 2 out of 2 points Diversity exists even within cultural groups. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 11 0 out of 1 points The Gay and Lesbian Community has minimized domestic violence as an issue in their community: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 12 1 out of 1 points Ageing in Place is an inappropriate concept to use in thinking about why victims of elder abuse don't access help. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 13 0 out of 2 points In many Asian Indian cultures, power relationships between men and women are intertwined with chaste and class. In addition, women's status is effected by Answer Selected Answer: a. the existence of other women in the house Question 14 0 out of 4 points Examples of societal oppression of Native Americans include: Answer Selected Answers: b. a 90% reduction of Native populations between European contact and establishment of reservations d. tribal sovereignty and independence Question 15 0 out of 1 points For many battered women, fear and misunderstanding of the immigration process keep them silent about the abuse they suffer. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 16 0 out of 4 points Within many Asian cultures, characteristics seen as virtuous may contribute to a battered Asian woman's barriers to safety. They include (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. Privacy c. Silence Question 17 1 out of 1 points Cultural barriers are no excuse for not seeking services. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 18 1 out of 1 points Isolation from family is not a concern to Asian Indian women, whose culture expects independence and private households. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 19 0 out of 2 points Battered African American women may experience conflicted loyalty, meaning they (select all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: a. excuse his anger because they sympathize with him as a victim of racism and oppression c. believe that violence is part of their shared culture Question 20 0 out of 1 points Rural police departments are often under-staffed and a considerable distance from immediate responses to battered women in rural communities. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 21 0 out of 1 points Two factors contribute to the ongoing maintenance of violent relationships. They are (select two): Answer Selected Answers: a. Drugs and alcohol abuse d. Our criminal justice system's lack of resources Question 22 0 out of 1 points All women face barriers when trying to escape battering relationships. They can be placed in 4 basic categories: Answer Selected Answer: a. Personal, Relationship, Institutional, Ideological Question 23 2 out of 2 points Latina women may have been raised to put the family at the center of their culture, and defer to the family's unity and strength before their own individual needs. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 24 1 out of 1 points Financial barriers for undocumented battered women may be more severe than for other battered women. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 25 2 out of 2 points Racism rarely effects the quality of services battered women of color receive. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 1 0 out of 2 points Interventions with battered women must never extend to their children. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 2 2 out of 4 points Feminist therapy has which of the following basic tenants (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: c. techniques include identification of battered wmen and consciousness-raising d. role of the counselor is to provide support, identify resources, and advocate Question 3 0 out of 3 points Suspect/Offender-focused interventions have the following goals (choose all that are appropriate) Answer Selected Answers: a. avoid need for arrest and/or prosecution d. provide offenders opportunity to change Question 4 0 out of 2 points Freire's learning theories assumed that the group facilitator and people in the group had equal power. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 2 out of 2 points According to Ellen Pence, the group itself is an act of liberation and empowerment. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 0 out of 1 points Presence of, or expertise in the use of, weapons is an important indicator in risk assessment. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 7 2 out of 2 points Mutual help groups grew out of feminist ideas and consciousness-raising groups of the 1960s Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 8 1 out of 1 points Risk assessments can assist officers and victims to anitcipate an individual's behavior. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 1 out of 5 points Interventions should start with collaborative identification of (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: b. victims identification of priority problems c. how the victim may have triggered the violence g. past efforts at problem solving, help-seeking Question 10 0 out of 1 points Centrality is a concept that is important to risk assessment because it considers the abuser's core motivation, and thus the root of the problem. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 11 0 out of 3 points Battered women have a variety of needs, including (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. Therapy b. Safety Question 12 1 out of 1 points Empowering battered women means the act of giving them their power back. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 13 1 out of 1 points Risk assessments should take which of the following very seriously: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 14 1 out of 1 points Victims may be concerned about which of the following: Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Question 15 2 out of 2 points Goals of a victim-focused intervention are to: Answer Selected Answer: d. Both B and C Question 16 0 out of 2 points Support groups should be divided into which of the following stages: Answer Selected Answer: b. Battered women in crisis, and women enabling their partners Question 17 0 out of 2 points CPS goals for children's safety may require a battered woman to exert more control than she has. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 18 0 out of 1 points There are limited options for interventions, risk-assessments, and safety planning with victims who plan to "stay" or stay in communication with their abuser. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 19 1 out of 1 points Most victims don't know, until they meet an advocate, how to make a safety plan or risk assessment. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 20 1 out of 1 points Following assessments of risk and danger, officers should: Answer Selected Answer: b. clarify roles and responsibilities, and educate the victim about domestic violence Question 21 0 out of 2 points Paolo Freira was a famous Italian writer and women's advocate who wrote books about shelters and support groups Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 1 1 out of 1 points Pro-feminist intervention strategies are confirmed by batterer's ability to control anger and violence when provoked by people more powerful. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 2 0 out of 1 points The Ventilation Model promotes certain forms of self-expression without addressing the violence itself. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 3 0 out of 3 points The Texas Council on Family Violence advises that victims consider the following aspects of a batterer's intervention programs (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. The program includes sessions for couples c. The program assesses victim safety Question 4 0 out of 1 points Women and men share their use of violence as a way to achieve long-term authority. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 5 0 out of 1 points Family systems models of intervention are criticized for their conduciveness to victim blaming. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 0 out of 1 points Domestic Violence advocates viewed education and counseling of batterers as their primary focus for intervention. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 7 1 out of 1 points Pro-feminist intervention strategies keep gender analysis of power central to their curricula. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 8 0 out of 2 points Pro-feminist strategies of intervention keep individual histories (such as child abuse) as a focus of their intervention. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 9 0 out of 1 points The Interaction Model focuses on elimination of violence and identification of sexism. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 2 out of 2 points Typically, batterers enter intervention programs for what reasons: Answer Selected Answer: e. B and D Question 11 2 out of 5 points All of the following are models for Batterer's Intervention (mark all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. Insight Model c. Ventilation Model Question 12 0 out of 2 points Multi-dimensional models: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 13 0 out of 1 points Criminal Justice systems are most compatible with Cognitive Behavioral models of intervention. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 14 0 out of 2 points Concerned about a universal solution to diverse populations of batterers, professionals are urging the development of which approaches: Answer Selected Answer: c. Both Question 15 0 out of 1 points Psychotherapeutic interventions suggest that no one is predisposed to violence and that all violence is chosen. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 16 0 out of 2 points Professionals question the appropriateness of Batterer's Intervention programs for women because: Answer Selected Answer: d. None of the above Question 17 0 out of 1 points Evaluations of batterer's intervention programs are largely inconclusive. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 18 1 out of 3 points Please match the dominant domestic violence theory with the "source" to which the theory attributes the violence. Answer Question Selected Match Pro-feminist B. Society and culture Interactional A. Individual Cognitive Behavioral C. Family dynamics Question 19 1 out of 1 points The vast majority of women who use violence are also victims of domestic violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 20 0 out of 3 points Intervention approaches that see the batterer and victim together (couples counseling) are inappropriate for which of the following reasons: Answer Selected Answer: g. All of the Above Question 21 0 out of 1 points Questions of how to evaluate batterer's intervention may need to be reframed to include the broader context of criminal justice support. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 22 0 out of 1 points The term "batterer" is universally understood to be gender neutral. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 23 0 out of 3 points Please identify the most prominant model programs (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: b. DVRT d. EMERGE Question 1 2 out of 3 points The Texas Council on Family Violence advises that victims consider the following aspects of a batterer's intervention programs (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: b. The program holds the abuser accountable d. The program addresses the abuser's belief system Question 2 3 out of 3 points Intervention approaches that see the batterer and victim together (couples counseling) are inappropriate for which of the following reasons: Answer Selected Answer: f. A, B, and D Question 3 2 out of 2 points Pro-feminist strategies of intervention keep individual histories (such as child abuse) as a focus of their intervention. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 4 0 out of 2 points Concerned about a universal solution to diverse populations of batterers, professionals are urging the development of which approaches: Answer Selected Answer: d. None of the Above Question 5 1 out of 1 points The Interaction Model focuses on elimination of violence and identification of sexism. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 1 out of 1 points Women and men share their use of violence as a way to achieve long-term authority. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 7 0 out of 2 points Multi-dimensional models: Answer Selected Answer: c. clarify the different aspects of violence which require different interventions Question 8 2 out of 2 points Typically, batterers enter intervention programs for what reasons: Answer Selected Answer: e. B and D Question 9 1 out of 1 points The term "batterer" is universally understood to be gender neutral. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 10 1 out of 1 points Pro-feminist intervention strategies keep gender analysis of power central to their curricula. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 11 1 out of 3 points Please match the dominant domestic violence theory with the "source" to which the theory attributes the violence. Answer Question Selected Match Pro-feminist B. Society and culture Interactional C. Individual Cognitive Behavioral A. Family dynamics Question 12 0 out of 2 points Professionals question the appropriateness of Batterer's Intervention programs for women because: Answer Selected Answer: c. Both Question 13 1 out of 1 points The vast majority of women who use violence are also victims of domestic violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 14 1 out of 1 points Domestic Violence advocates viewed education and counseling of batterers as their primary focus for intervention. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 15 1 out of 1 points Family systems models of intervention are criticized for their conduciveness to victim blaming. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 16 1 out of 1 points Questions of how to evaluate batterer's intervention may need to be reframed to include the broader context of criminal justice support. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 17 1 out of 1 points Evaluations of batterer's intervention programs are largely inconclusive. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 18 3 out of 5 points All of the following are models for Batterer's Intervention (mark all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. Insight Model c. Ventilation Model e. Pro-feminist Model Question 19 1 out of 1 points Criminal Justice systems are most compatible with Cognitive Behavioral models of intervention. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 20 0 out of 3 points Please identify the most prominant model programs (select all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. AMEND e. SART Question 21 1 out of 1 points Pro-feminist intervention strategies are confirmed by batterer's ability to control anger and violence when provoked by people more powerful. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 22 1 out of 1 points Psychotherapeutic interventions suggest that no one is predisposed to violence and that all violence is chosen. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 23 1 out of 1 points The Ventilation Model promotes certain forms of self-expression without addressing the violence itself. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 1 2 out of 2 points Working to enable Child Protecive Services to remove children exposed to domestic violence will motivate mothers to stop their own victimization. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 2 0 out of 2 points These policies were developed because there has been so little attention to domestic violence, and the author wants to compel some important systems to initiate change. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 3 0 out of 2 points The majority of battered women who work experience effects of violence only when they are home. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 4 2 out of 2 points A batterer's impact on a victim who works is limited to her emotional upset about the violence. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 3 out of 3 points For most women, addressing physical safety without addressing long-term financial stability, will not improve their safety. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 2 out of 2 points Children are often the primary consideration of victims of domestic violence Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 7 0 out of 3 points Domestic violence stops in one of two ways: Answer Selected Answer: c. physical separation and change in victim behavior Question 8 2 out of 2 points Most low-income battered women are isolated from services, and so only work with domestic violence programs. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 0 out of 3 points For safety reasons, the author recommends that we encourage women from underserved communities to access help outside their community. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 0 out of 3 points Poverty reduces options for battered women in which of the following ways (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: b. low-income women aren't educated about alternative life styles to violence Question 11 3 out of 3 points Because policies should reduce abuse and meet basic human needs, the author recommends that: Answer Selected Answer: d. B and C Question 12 0 out of 3 points Strategies for improving a victim's safety at work include (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. Offering to conduct an "intervention" with her batterer c. changing her schedule Question 13 2 out of 2 points The author recommends that the focus of prevention and intervention should be the responsibility of law enforcement. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 14 3 out of 3 points The following companies were leaders in responding to domestic violence among their employees: Answer Selected Answer: d. Polaroid and Liz Claiborne Question 15 0 out of 3 points The author described a tension in policy development between: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above Question 16 0 out of 2 points Most Fortune 500 companies believe that domestic violence has an impact on the workplace and effects their financial bottom line. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 1 0 out of 3 points The author described a tension in policy development between: Answer Selected Answer: c. creating solutions for domestic violence and creating resources for low-income families Question 2 3 out of 3 points Because policies should reduce abuse and meet basic human needs, the author recommends that: Answer Selected Answer: d. B and C Question 3 2 out of 3 points Poverty reduces options for battered women in which of the following ways (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: a. low-income women may not see violence as their family's most threatening issue c. money can mean mobility and protect her from bias and discrimination Question 4 2 out of 3 points Strategies for improving a victim's safety at work include (choose all that are correct): Answer Selected Answers: b. installing security cameras d. escorting her to her car Question 5 2 out of 2 points Most low-income battered women are isolated from services, and so only work with domestic violence programs. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 3 out of 3 points Domestic violence stops in one of two ways: Answer Selected Answer: d. physical separation and change in batterer behavior Question 7 2 out of 2 points The majority of battered women who work experience effects of violence only when they are home. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 8 3 out of 3 points For most women, addressing physical safety without addressing long-term financial stability, will not improve their safety. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 9 3 out of 3 points For safety reasons, the author recommends that we encourage women from underserved communities to access help outside their community. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 10 2 out of 2 points These policies were developed because there has been so little attention to domestic violence, and the author wants to compel some important systems to initiate change. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 11 2 out of 2 points Most Fortune 500 companies believe that domestic violence has an impact on the workplace and effects their financial bottom line. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 12 3 out of 3 points The following companies were leaders in responding to domestic violence among their employees: Answer Selected Answer: d. Polaroid and Liz Claiborne Question 13 2 out of 2 points Children are often the primary consideration of victims of domestic violence Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 14 2 out of 2 points A batterer's impact on a victim who works is limited to her emotional upset about the violence. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 15 2 out of 2 points The author recommends that the focus of prevention and intervention should be the responsibility of law enforcement. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 16 2 out of 2 points Working to enable Child Protecive Services to remove children exposed to domestic violence will motivate mothers to stop their own victimization. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 1 0 out of 3 points Scenario 10 demonstrates the importance of: Answer Selected Answer: c. Constitutional rights to equal protection Question 2 0 out of 3 points When battered women fail to heed advice from loved ones, helpers often turn away in frustration. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 3 0 out of 3 points In Scenario One, "What to Do-b" the author recommends you write down your friend's story and concerns. This is: Answer Selected Answer: b. listening for her needs like a helper Question 4 0 out of 3 points In Scenario 7, "What to Do--a and c" there is a consistent message to the friend that Answer Selected Answer: c. Her statement is an insignificant aspect of evidence collection Question 5 3 out of 3 points In Scenario Two, one of the ethical issues raised is: Answer Selected Answer: c. How to respect a minor's feelings and autonomy, and keep adult responsibilities to protect her from harm Question 6 1.6 out of 4 points A "Helper" has which of the following attitudes and behaviors (choose all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: c. establishes and maintains appropriate boundaries f. supports the victim as she makes decisions, and does her own work Question 7 3 out of 3 points Reflecting is a term which means interpreting what a person says to see if you understand Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 8 3 out of 3 points "Unconditional acceptance" includes: Answer Selected Answer: d. A and B Question 9 0 out of 3 points In the aftermath of abuse, according to Judith Herman, survivors cannot hear or process anything well. Support and/or advice should be delayed 24-36 hours. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 0 out of 3 points A battered woman might reasonably fear that leaving will put her at risk for Answer Selected Answer: c. homelessness Question 11 1 out of 3 points Helping a battered woman includes which of the following behaviors (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: c. provide support and information Question 12 3 out of 3 points The "helper" in Scenario Four is primarily defined by her assistance in: Answer Selected Answer: b. finding resources Question 13 0 out of 3 points In Scenario One, "What To Do--a." the authors recommend what kind of approach? Answer Selected Answer: c. Mediating Question 1 3 out of 3 points Reflecting is a term which means interpreting what a person says to see if you understand Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 2 0 out of 3 points In Scenario One, "What To Do--a." the authors recommend what kind of approach? Answer Selected Answer: a. Reflecting her feelings Question 3 3 out of 3 points A battered woman might reasonably fear that leaving will put her at risk for Answer Selected Answer: e. all of the above Question 4 0 out of 3 points In Scenario One, "What to Do-b" the author recommends you write down your friend's story and concerns. This is: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the Above Question 5 3 out of 3 points In Scenario 7, "What to Do--a and c" there is a consistent message to the friend that Answer Selected Answer: d. Her decisions about how to proceed will be respected Question 6 0 out of 3 points Scenario 10 demonstrates the importance of: Answer Selected Answer: a. batterer's attempts to manipulate officers on the scene Question 7 3 out of 3 points In Scenario Two, one of the ethical issues raised is: Answer Selected Answer: c. How to respect a minor's feelings and autonomy, and keep adult responsibilities to protect her from harm Question 8 3 out of 3 points In the aftermath of abuse, according to Judith Herman, survivors cannot hear or process anything well. Support and/or advice should be delayed 24-36 hours. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 1.6 out of 4 points A "Helper" has which of the following attitudes and behaviors (choose all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: a. does most of the listening c. establishes and maintains appropriate boundaries Question 10 2 out of 3 points Helping a battered woman includes which of the following behaviors (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: c. provide support and information d. maintain on-going contact Question 11 3 out of 3 points "Unconditional acceptance" includes: Answer Selected Answer: d. A and B Question 12 3 out of 3 points The "helper" in Scenario Four is primarily defined by her assistance in: Answer Selected Answer: b. finding resources Question 13 3 out of 3 points When battered women fail to heed advice from loved ones, helpers often turn away in frustration. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 1 0 out of 6 points Jaffe, Wolfe, and Wilson identified which of the following within their 20 characteristics of children exposed to domestic violence? Answer Selected Answers: c. deception including lying, stealing, and cheating d. self-assured and preoccupied with popularity and peer dynamics Question 2 2 out of 2 points A majority of children whose mothers are victims of domestic violence witness the violence themselves. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 3 3 out of 3 points Better training for law enforcement, and better documentation of the presence of children at domestic calls will result in improved access to services. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 4 2 out of 2 points Duress arguments for battered women have traditionally been effective in reversing charges of "failure to protect." Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 0 out of 2 points Court-based mediation has proven ineffective in identifing families for whom domestic violence is an issue, and making good referrals and recommendations. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 6 2 out of 2 points Infants whose mothers are abused may demonstrate propensity for illness, irritability, and difficulty sleeping Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 7 2 out of 2 points Custody preferences given to parents who will be more likely to allow the other parent access to the children was a positive judicial trend for battered women. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 8 0 out of 6 points Shared characteristics of children who witness violence include (choose all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: a. diagnosd with Attention Deficit Disorder d. anxiety and developmental delays Question 9 3 out of 3 points Lemon recommends which of the following actions for an enhanced response to child witnesses of domestic violence? Answer Selected Answer: d. A and C Question 10 0 out of 6 points Coordinated courts are controversial, raising the following issues (choose all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: b. it would make the system more efficient so that the same family and case did not appear in multiple courts d. costs for administration are potentially prohibitive Question 11 0 out of 2 points Battered women must physically abuse their children themselves in order for CPS or the courts to terminate their rights as parents. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 12 2 out of 2 points Post-traumatic Stress diagnoses include the following criteria: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the above Question 13 0 out of 2 points Surprisingly, there is little or no connection between men who abuse their partners and men who abuse their children. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 1 2 out of 2 points Surprisingly, there is little or no connection between men who abuse their partners and men who abuse their children. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 2 4 out of 6 points Shared characteristics of children who witness violence include (choose all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: b. Use of violence to resolve problems c. strong sense of helplessness Question 3 2 out of 2 points Custody preferences given to parents who will be more likely to allow the other parent access to the children was a positive judicial trend for battered women. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 4 2 out of 2 points Duress arguments for battered women have traditionally been effective in reversing charges of "failure to protect." Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 3 out of 3 points Better training for law enforcement, and better documentation of the presence of children at domestic calls will result in improved access to services. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 2 out of 2 points Battered women must physically abuse their children themselves in order for CPS or the courts to terminate their rights as parents. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 7 2.4 out of 6 points Jaffe, Wolfe, and Wilson identified which of the following within their 20 characteristics of children exposed to domestic violence? Answer Selected Answers: a. limited tolerance for frustration f. self-blame for family violence, separations, or divorce Question 8 3 out of 3 points Lemon recommends which of the following actions for an enhanced response to child witnesses of domestic violence? Answer Selected Answer: d. A and C Question 9 2 out of 2 points A majority of children whose mothers are victims of domestic violence witness the violence themselves. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 2 out of 2 points Post-traumatic Stress diagnoses include the following criteria: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the above Question 11 4 out of 6 points Coordinated courts are controversial, raising the following issues (choose all that are appropriate): Answer Selected Answers: a. it would promote a coordinated delivery of services c. family courts might minimize criminal issues Question 12 2 out of 2 points Court-based mediation has proven ineffective in identifing families for whom domestic violence is an issue, and making good referrals and recommendations. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 13 2 out of 2 points Infants whose mothers are abused may demonstrate propensity for illness, irritability, and difficulty sleeping Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 1 0 out of 4 points Symptoms unique to teenage survivors of domestic violence include: Answer Selected Answer: e. A, B and C Question 2 2 out of 2 points At-risk for teen dating violence are which populations: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the Above Question 3 0 out of 6 points Unique to teen dating violence are the following (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: b. teens experience more verbal abuse and much less physical or sexual abuse than adults c. teens do not have the legal protections that adults have Question 4 0 out of 2 points Many teenagers perceive jealousy and possessiveness as expressions of love. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 0 out of 2 points Ecological Approaches address the behavior of the perpetrator, arguing that cultural and peer influences are secondary to individual pathology. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 0 out of 6 points When talking with teens about the violence, it is recommended you DO (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: b. insist she tell her teachers and coaches for safety reasons d. help her obtain legal protection Question 7 0 out of 6 points When talking with teens about the violence, it is recommended you NOT (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: a. pressure her to make decisions d. overwhelm her with resources Question 8 2 out of 2 points Teen perpetrators of domestic violence typically have a different profile than other teen offenders. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 2 out of 2 points Young women are more likely than young men to be the victims of severe forms of physical and sexual violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 10 2 out of 2 points Teens involved in violent dating relationships express a higher tolerance for the idea of violence in a marriage. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 11 2 out of 2 points Most teen perpetrators of domestic violence are less self-aware and less vocal about why and how they use violence when compared to adult perpetators. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 12 0 out of 2 points The majority of pregnant teens who were being abused by their partners confided in their health care provider about the abuse. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 13 0.66667 out of 2 points Teen perpetrators often share which of the following characteristics? Answer Selected Answers: a. use of alcohol or durgs Question 1 2 out of 2 points Most teen perpetrators of domestic violence are less self-aware and less vocal about why and how they use violence when compared to adult perpetators. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 2 4 out of 6 points When talking with teens about the violence, it is recommended you DO (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: a. let her know violence is unacceptable c. take her relationship seriously Question 3 4 out of 4 points Symptoms unique to teenage survivors of domestic violence include: Answer Selected Answer: f. A, B, and D Question 4 2 out of 2 points Teen perpetrators of domestic violence typically have a different profile than other teen offenders. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 5 2 out of 2 points Teens involved in violent dating relationships express a higher tolerance for the idea of violence in a marriage. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 6 2 out of 2 points Many teenagers perceive jealousy and possessiveness as expressions of love. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 7 2 out of 2 points Young women are more likely than young men to be the victims of severe forms of physical and sexual violence. Answer Selected Answer: a. True Question 8 2 out of 2 points Ecological Approaches address the behavior of the perpetrator, arguing that cultural and peer influences are secondary to individual pathology. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 9 4 out of 6 points When talking with teens about the violence, it is recommended you NOT (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: b. ask blaming questions c. talk to them together Question 10 2 out of 2 points The majority of pregnant teens who were being abused by their partners confided in their health care provider about the abuse. Answer Selected Answer: b. False Question 11 2 out of 2 points At-risk for teen dating violence are which populations: Answer Selected Answer: e. All of the Above Question 12 4 out of 6 points Unique to teen dating violence are the following (choose all that apply): Answer Selected Answers: a. definitions of "normal" behavior for a gender are stereotyped and extreme d. teens have fewer resources and limited mobility Question 13 2 out of 2 points Teen perpetrators often share which of the following characteristics? Answer Selected Answers: a. use of alcohol or durgs b. witnessed domestic violence in the home c. have attitudes that support male domination of females

FAAK

s I lay here in bed thinking about how badly I should be reading up for school instead of just watching videos from the past. I realize how stupid I am for everything I have ever done. I wish I was still with Aaron. I love him. My heart still hurts. I don't know if I am ever able to love someone else. This birthday sep 1 was one of the hardest birthdays for me. I didn't get anything. I am so pathetic to think that I would have gotten a call from him. Even though he changed his number and everything. He knew my address. I figured he would of sent me something. Anything. He always cared about me. I don't see how if I feel like how I do why doesn't he feel the same still? I still mope on all of my drea,s with him. All the memories I have with him. How he treated me like a man and he was proud to be with me in front of his family. Seeing him after a long day and he would just run into my arms. How I miss the Husband of my life and soul. I would give anything to cuddle with him once again. He made me who I am today. Still unsure if I even want to be here anymore. I wish I could just enlist into the army or something. Make something out of my life. The one thing holding me back is me not finishing high school because of him. He took me away from san jose when I just turned 16 and I never went back to high school. Life for me has forever been hard because of all of that. I am in college now without a high school diploma and have finished 36 units and on my way to finishing 12 more this semester. I want to go away where I don't have to worry about men and how hurt I am. I wish I could stop looking at his facebook page and his boyfriends page. It hurt me knowing that another man loves him. I think to myself. He will never have the 5 years of growing up we did together. From a teenager to a man we both became. I love him with all my heart. I just need to stop hurting my current boyfriend and become the crazy cat lady. All I do is just talk about Aaron in front of him everyday. He tells me that I have not gone one day without mentioning his name.

2 weeks left of summer

Lately life has been going so fast. To many things have been going on in my life and I haven't been able to keep a grip on anything. I thought I was happy. I can't tell anymore. I can just see myself being angry with everything around. I still just walk around helplessly. I thought that time would have healed my love and needs. I don't feel safe anymore. Isn't your boyfriend supposed to make you feel safe and not just hurt inside. I don't understand why people do this to me after awhile. I just want to be loved. Aaron made my life so amazing and made me feel safe. Now with my latest development of seeing something at 3am I haven't been the same. Jared hasn't made me feel safe. I get very scared about everything and he just gets so mad at me. I haven't slept since that night happened. I wish I was never left alone for a week. That week was the week I fucked up and did the stupid Ouija board. I knew I shouldn't have done it but I was so curious. Well, I didn't like what it said. It was horrible. I haven't been the same since it. I miss how Aaron made me feel safe no matter what. When I was scared he was my man that is the night and shinning armor to my nightmares. Jared just gets mad at me and literally got out of bed and was just going to leave me alone in the room while he went into the living room. Who the fuck does that kinda thing? As the days go by, I can feel myself not loving him anymore and just having the feeling of being stuck. I have no where to go, I have no family, I have no one that loves me. Sure I have family but it's only because I am related to them by blood. Family means loyalty and I don't have anyone of those that are loyal. I try to talk to people but I get blown off or just no answer. I feel as if I don't even exist. It hurts inside, so I just drink my problems away. Sure it works for the moment. Nothing actually fixes me but writing out all my shit on this site. This past week. I have felt very lonely. I don't know what to do about it. I am stressing out really hard. School starts in 2 weeks. I lost Financial Aid because I had no idea that W's counted against my grades. So this fall will probably be the last semester I am able to do since I paid for my books and the service fees with the last of my financial aid I got from summer school. I feel so ridiculous. Someone acting like this towards me really did make me just fall out of the tree. I know I am a bitch but fuck. When someone is scared, isn't it just right to hold your man all night and not care about anything else. To worry about him and just make sure he is fine and to caress him and make him know that you are here for him and that you are never going to leave and just keep him close and tight. Not hold me for a second, complain about it every second because you are far to hot to be near me and get pissy, to the point where you decide to just grab your pillow and blanket and completely walk away? This makes me hurt inside. I needed you. I needed you to be there for me. What do I do? I close my eyes and imagine that Aaron is right next to me. He made my life perfect. What the fuck am I doing. I hate myself. I just wish I could go back.

Aaron

I dunno what I do wrong inside my head. I still hold onto things that I should never. I still love things that I have no reason in loving. I find myself so lost these days then I have ever. It has been longer then I have known then what I should have understood. I am so lost. These past two months have been the hardest of my life then I have ever. I try to avoid using that facebook from seeing someone else's happiness but all I ever want to do is check to see if someone is still single. Or every other site that I know they are on. I am ruined inside. What do you do when the love of your life is not yours. The one you built the world with and he is still miles and miles apart. So far gone I am sure he never even thinks of me. I am sure he might but not as much as I do. I mope around feeling so lost that I am not by his side or that we aren't doing everything that they are doing now. I hurt myself seeing this. I hurt myself seeing that they are doing everything we did together. Wasn't that something that we did together. Did I mean anything? I miss my best friend. You have no idea how hard it has been for me. We spent over 4 years together and then after we split up we still talk for over a year then all I know is that it's gone. He just finds someone else to be proud about and leaves me in the dust. I hurt. No one cares about me. I am just lost. I am going no where in life anymore. With him I was someone and people where proud of me for everything that I have accomplished even though that was little. Aaron truly is the love of my life and in my heart is my husband. How do people just run away from what is really there. I miss everything about him. Even though he hates me, and I am a bipo bitch. I just wish I was in his arms again. So now I just drink to try to live in the moment since I live in the past. When I had soll him last was in may and it was amazing. We hung out and lived our life again with each other for those 3 hours. He sang to me and made me feel just at home when we sat next to each other and sorta cuddled a little bit. Seeing everything in his apartment that was ours and everything that we worked hard for together to keep and acquire. Just to know that some guy is inside our home taking it all away from me. He doesn't understand the memories we have. Does my baboo even understand that even the queen bed he sleeps on from the house of Griswold and his brother being crazy with the noodles down the drain when we brought it into the living room all the time. Or those parsons tables. Our first apartment in Colorado after you lived at my moms house with me and we began such an amazing life together. To both of the desks. The black one was mine that I bought with Financial Aid and you built it even though you broke it was perfect and the brown one when I tried to buy you the metal desk that you wanted from wal-mart your mother went behind my back and got you that instead for you from target for Christmas. To the mosaic painting that I spent weeks trying to find that is hung up. The two black picture frames from 2 years of valentine days that are still up just without pictures of us in it. To all the clothes you wear still. Your main facebook profile right now where you are on a trip with the ho wearing the shirt that meant so much to me and us. The KREW shirt. You know why it is important. Did you wear that and think about everything. I feel like it hurt that you let some other guy touch you while wearing that shirt. To the tie rack that you touch everyday for work. Am I still in your heart somewhere? The entire Kitchen of random stuff that we shared together. It hurts me the most that you bring other guys into the home we built together. I still remember when we where able to finally get our place together in Modesto. Getting the key and sitting in the empty apartment.

To all the birthdays we spent together and the last ones I was unable to be there for. I couldn't even say happy birthday until you hung up on me. I miss you Aaron. I miss us. I miss my Baboo. I miss my chubby hubby. I miss calling you duck. I miss your cute smile you give me with the pillow and you look up. I miss your hand holding mine. I miss your arm around me every night. I miss how smart you are and everything I asked you knew the answer to and helped me out. I miss how whenever I needed you you where right there to find me, I miss how we would just talk for days hell we talked non stop for over 5 years, our 9 hour conversations on the phone when I was in san jose, 98 degrees I will always love you, time after time quietdrive, Picture Filter, Ratatouille, Mogaley and Mr Bear, the long kisses we would enjoy together, the amazing sex, our adventurers we had, the drunken moments, the endless talks about the life we would have, sharing the things we wanted together, buddy & sasha, I miss that you where my best friend my love my night and shinning armor and not just that but you where all mine. [FAAK]

July?!?!

Wow today is the 9th of july already. I have no idea how time always goes by so darn fast. So now life for me has changed so much and I am fed up with all my decions that I have made. I have been doing summer school for two classes. I ended up getting both D's :/ ugh. I know right. I didn't try that hard and I was on vacation for half the semester. I didn't try as hard because I told myself I wasn't good enough and that I didn't have the textbooks for both of them. Which I could have had if my school sent me the money for it. Well wow. Now I am happy. I just checked my school transcripts and I got two C's!! Fuck yes. I will take C's any day over a D! I have this problem with my life now. I want to move to Florida but I have built such a great foundation out here in Utah with Jared. If I leave him to go out to Florida I dunno if we would be together. Ya, it would last for a week or even up to a month. How I don't trust men would always get in the way of everything. So knowing that he may be already cheating on me I would just forget him and go and do the same even though he may not be doing it, I can't stop my heart from thinking what it thinks. To myself I belive I should just stay here and tuff it up and be a college student like everyone else has. I am still lost in this world and don't know what is going to happen to me. I think I am going to stay here with Jared. It kills me to even want to be away from someone who loves me and who I love back. It also scares me that I am in love and that it makes me want to run. I dunno why I always get like this. I wanna run but yet I wanna run back into there arms. I did this with Aaron and it never went well. I still love my Aaron babycakes but that is in the past. I should have learned from all of that and put that into my relationship now. I don't know what I am going to do. I just want air conditioner so that makes me want to run by it's self. lol. I need someone to tell me what to do. I wish I could text aaron and talk to him about me. He always knew how to help me out and do what I needed to do. For now I am lost

New updates. TCA #2

So today is my 24 hours from my second TCA peel 25% I also have been doing the derma roller every sunday followed by the 40% glycolic peel on Mondays. I haven't noticed much of a difference. But yet it is so gradual that I am unable to notice it myself. Plus it has only been one month of actually doing all of this. I just can't wait until I have a perfect face like the famous people do. I did go back home last week and my brother said that my face looked really good. Which I am not to sure if its that noticeable yet. I still have like months and months of all this burning my face off. I have noticed that my tattoo has gotten lighter. Not by completely much though. I do need to wear more sunscreen though. I feel as if I have been lacking from actually doing that for my skin. I am still taking my Doxycycline medication but I do end up forgetting to take it every-once in awhile. (which is like every other day) lol. So I just took my two pills now that I wrote about them. Ha. I have noticed that doing all of the chemicals I haven't broken out in awhile. It just shows more of all my scars instead of being inflamed with acne. I don't have any pictures to update but I do have a photo from my vacation.



So Now that I got my updates of all the acid and acne crap. I been feeling like my life has purpose and I have yet to discover what this really means to me. I have had dreams that I become famous and or rich or something happens to me that I become in the history books. I don't know why I been feeling like this. I have always felt so good about my life being below normal and or average. I just feel like I am ready for life to start and give me the things that I need. I am ready for all that it has to offer. I need people in my life, well certain people in my life. I just need to learn how to forget certain other people and how to hate people. Which I have no hate in me at all. I don't understand this about me. People can be mad and what not and never talk to others. While I am here always wondering what happened to that one other person that I have known and what not. I on the other hand always forget. I can be bitchy and naggy but doesn't mean I a hate someone or can hold a grudge longer then a minute. I read up on it and I still can't seam to learn that. Well. Gotta get to bed. I love you if you actually read my life and problems and issues. <3

Glycolic Update

I don't really see a difference in any of the peels that I have done. I don't understand why those people online have gotten such amazing results. I will have to do it a lot more. I just almost see no point in it all. It really hurts and seams to make no difference in my acne or scars or even my wrinkles. The only thing that it has done is just make me glow as if I was a pregnant girl. So now I am stuck on actually doing the peels or not doing the peels. Maybe I will just do it weekly until the product is gone then figure out the before and after instead of thinking of some amazing thing was going to all of a sudden happen. On the other note I am able to tell that when I use the peels that It makes me break out and pushes out the acne the was going to come and then I seam to be clear but have that to worry about and to heel. So I guess the glycolic wasn't for any acne scarring and just for acne. To push out all the impurities that was in my face. My next peel is on Saturday before we leave to california. We are going to hit up Vegas before we get out there and spend a entire day walking around being weird I guess. I am looking forward to seeing my bro again. I wanna ask him if I can take his upgrade for a new phone. But the new Iphone 5 hasn't came out yet so I see no point just yet. So I am still stuck with my HTC inspire 4g. Which is fine I just want something new and different. It seams like I have had this thing forever and a day. But it has only been about a year and if that. So I will update the pictures with how I look today. Rememeber that I had just woken up and it is a boring lazy day. Love you if you read this

40% glycolic acid peel

This picture is the After the TCA experiment and right before I did the Glycolic peel.

So today it has been nearly a week since I have done my TCA peel. Which tomorrow should be the full week. But I was getting anxious and totally had to do this other peel that I had gotten in the mail. I was super excited for this product as well. Only really because I knew that I wouldn't look like a zombie after using this product. So it made me a super happy person. The TCA hasn't really showed much of a difference once it was all heeled up. It only took me 3-4 days of actual peeling to get rid of it all. Although I have enough for one more peel which I will end up doing after I come back from my vacation in like two weeks. The glycolic went well. It did hurt but the instructions that it came with helped me in more then one way. It became a fan that I used to air dry it and make it less burning. Which felt great. I also put the acid on my Tattoo. Dunno if it will do much but anything is worth a try. I will be doing Glycolic peel's weekly part of my Sunday wash away program. Which usually starts off with ridding a hang over and laundry and getting ready for the week coming up. My derma roller still has not came in yet. I am kinda iffy on if it actually will or not. I have no clue where it has gone. Which makes me really sad because I was really looking forward to receiving this product. Although I am super terrified on if it would hurt or not. People saying that it makes popping sounds isn't all the intriguing.

TCA peel 25% Day Two + Random

So today is my second going on third day after I did my TCA peel. And I have already started the peeling process. It is so hard not to peel it because I have nothing else to be doing but be picking at my face. It has given me a little bit of anxiety just to pick it and get it off my face but trying not to. I guess I am just anxious to be able to go outside again and hang out with people. I have plans tomorrow for a couple things to be doing so I am worried that I will be some zombie kid roaming around. I just hate that I have to actually tell people all about the process and what it is and how much it is and for why I am doing this to myself. In the pictures that I had taken you can't tell really how bad the peeling is because I have no natural light and its just taken off my HTC inspire cell phone. That and it is a snow storm today so it has been dark since around 1pm. LAME! lol. So I have been still putting the jojoba oil, almond oil and vitamin E on my face to help this peel be faster and get rid of everything. Today in the mail I got my 40% glycolic peel, which is making me anxious to use that after all of this has been done. So then I will be doing that and am pretty excited to get that going. I got a 30ml/1oz of it. So I will be doing that once a week every week until the bottle is gone. Then will be going back to a TCA peel then I was thinking of doing about 30ml/1oz of Lactic acid. While doing all of the glycolic acid peels I will also be doing a derma roller which hasn't came in yet so I am excited to get that going as well. I only got a .5mm derma roller so I figured I would try that then go bigger if I need to. Since of me doing all of this is to actually make myself look flawless I don't wanna fuck my skin up and look even worse. So back to the TCA peel. I have been drinking a lot of water. When I mean a lot I really mean like a gallon a day. Which helps make your body heel faster. Or help with acne. I dunno really. It's just good for ya. ok. ok. hehe. I also have been bleaching my teeth with Watts 35% carbamide peroxide. Which has made my teeth so much whiter already. I will do a before and after once I completed that process. I am unable to do a twice a day for it because my teeth and gums tend to hurt so I only do it once a night for thirty mins. I am a smoker so my teeth where a lil discolored but not like a yellow highlighter. lol. I am willing to do anything these days to get a perfect face/teeth/body. Which I tell myself I am going to actually do P90X again but last time I only did the first 30 days because I lost 20 pounds and was super skinny so I was like. Oh whatever I go what I wanted. So I might do another 30 days so I can get my summer body back and running for the beaches and swimming house parties.

Like I said you can barely tell that I am peeling but trust me. I did the peel on Monday at 3pm and I took this picture today Wednesday at 3pm. So it really only took me two days to begin peeling. Which for me this is exciting news. I know for next time I should probably start this after going out on Saturday and it should be cleared up by Tuesday night. Just thought this was uber cute since I am a Winnie the pooh lover. :D

TCA peel 25%

So yesterday I started my adventure on having amazing skin without all the darn acne scars. At first I thought it wasn't working but after two minutes I felt it. And oh boy did I really feel it.  I just can't wait to actually see my results after all this nasty peeling.

So this is me before I started my peel.

And this is what I would look like after a lil makeup. Which I don't use much but it does help out a lot. Thanks to The men pen













And then this is right after I did the peel. I did frost a little bit which you can't really tell on these pics because my phone made them smaller then they really are :/ But I did avoid letting it stay on to long since I read for about a week on all the reviews and all the youtube videos of people burning themselves. So I knew once I soll some white it was time to rinse off. Which people never told me that trying to get it off was the most painful thing ever. Water wasn't helping so made sure I had mixed some baking soda and water together in a cup before doing this incase it was extreme. So I threw that on my face and it burned 10x more for like 3 seconds then finally was calmed down. Which I guess if you don't numb your face before this then you just gotta deal with boiling water on your face. lol. I also applied the peel to my Tattoo and my scar on my arm from when I cut myself back when I was 14 which was nearly ten years ago. Which I didn't leave on so long because it was actually hurting more then getting the tattoo. So I had only left it on for like a minute. I don't notice any skin tightening at all so I don't know if it worked.Now these pictures are a day after. Which I have noticed my face is getting really tight and red. I have broke out from the process a little bit. But the TCA actually just pushed out all the other impurities. So I am kinda pleased on that behalf. Which I am not sure if it is actually 24hrs after but you can still see the difference in my skin from yesterday to today. I also applied jojoba oil to my face to keep it hydrated and almond oil with vitamin E which comes in a nice little chap-stick that I applied to my face. Which has helped with my face a lot. It soothes while moisturizing my skin. Feels amazing. I am still skeptical about putting chap-stick on my face but who cares. I just literally burned my face off. So I don't think anything is worse then that. lol. I am bright red but you could only tell when I didn't use flash since I was to lazy to get out of bed to take the pics and open the window for natural lighting. I will keep this updated daily until I have completed this TCA peel. Then I will be doing another peel of TCA since the 1 Dram has two applications. Which in the not so distant future I will actually have to buy a bigger size which I am thinking 1oz/30ml so that I can have many more peels ahead of me. I really just want to get rid of the tattoo so it may take up to ten applications. Some people have gotten it off in 6 but I don't mind reapplying every other week so that when I take my clothes off that I don't think of my ex. So this will be a great thing for me. I am super excited :D

Yes, It's been awhile

I am in a new town and new state. I have moved out of california to be with Jared. Everything out here was going amazing. I don't know what I did wrong and why everyone hates me. I hate what I have become. I am worthless and have no one except Jared. I don't do anything with my life and am unable to actually do anything. I wish for the best in so much for everyone but I am still unable to make do with what I have. I upset everyone around me. I just wish I had someone holding me. I need a life. Why am I never able to find it. I was a super happy person once. But I tend to always fuck it up. Life is never greener on the other side but yet I still fuck it up. When things go wrong and since I am so insecure. I feel as if I just have to go and run away or fuck other people. I don't understand this anymore. Why am I such a loser. Is myself being gay fucked up my life and if I just go to being straight that everything will just fall into place. I gained weight. I am 150 now. I am not that skinny lil thang anymore. I wish I had a ring on, I was wearing this CTR ring that always gave me the company I needed. It let me know that something or someone was out there watching me and that I should always be doing the right thing. Will that ever be good enough. I seam like I tend to depreas myself over Aaron still. I was in the suicide ward the other day. I took a couple pills and my bf at the moment went crazy. Now I have this outrageous bill that I will never be able to pay and I don't understand what I am going to do either. I need to be happy. I deserve to be happy and have what I want. Life in United States revolves around money. I wish I had it. I think everyone does. But when you're me to where if I had any job I would just keep it and make the best of it. I think this is the only thing standing in my way. I need a job to feel important. I don't have drugs anymore and alcohole isn't something I can be drinking 24/7. I need help. But yet to find help you have to have money. Everything is money money money. What to do. I wish they knew how to erase memories. I would erase everything and start out new. I need to learn to listen to Jared and understand that he is here for me and that is all I need.


Ps. I really hate bad Dreams

So halloween

May not be really there for me this year. I don't really have the wig that i need for it all. So for now that I am lost. Hey I thought this was really cute. So I just had to post this one :D

And also this is me the other day. Since you haven't seen me in some time.

ps.I am adorable

9.27.11

It has been nearly a month since I have updated this thing. I just wanted to be like. Wow. Ok being 21 has its ups and downs. And everything that I have expeierenced has not been the same from when I wasn't. Men are different. I feel like a old man. I also dislocated my knee on my birthday, which is still hurting because i think i dislocated it in my sleep like a week later or even two weeks later. I wish I knew what happened that night. But like always I have been blacking out. So now that I am of age. Things have changed in so many ways. Jessica looks at me like a fucking bitch that she just wants to use me for and when I don't she just gets upset that she doesn't get to that night because I am able to buy the beer and what not for everyone. But not just that. I need a job and everywhere that I have been looking has been nothing but a dead end. I need a job a apartment and a life. I want to have a husband and everthing back to normal again. I don't think this is possible anymore. I want to die. But anyway. Before all of that. I found a new man. His name is Andrew Johnson. Well. He is everything I have ever wanted in a man. He is so perfect that I feel like I am unable to please him in bed and that I should be and or something that I am not. I want to be his perfect everything but it is so hard to be what he wants because he sees everyone out here (west hollywood) as a sexy piece of ass. Tonight we went to a comedy thing and like everything went fine. I am a lil tipsy and everytyhing but like he told me that he was going to cut my head off a picture and paste it onto another picture of a man that was sexy as fuck. Wouldn't that hurt anyone in the first place i mean wtf. Like seriously. And after that he is talking about going and seeing his parents then going to mexico and having some craxy ass fun. asp. Without me. I mean who the fuck goes and says all this crazy ass shit and then thinks that he is the inisint one. Like seriously. What in the world is going on. Wow now he just said we watched limitless with me in the living room. First off. not me. And he wants to watch gnomeo and juliet. Well fuck that was the last movie Aaaron and I soll together. How sad would that be. So I am being this super bitch and just wanting to goto bed, because well I still love my husband and i want to be happy like that. Wow you know whats playing while i type this?!?!?! Enchanted happily ever after.


PEACE!!!!

ily Kenners.

I hope I make it another week....