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And now for another word about violence.  Know the toddler who keeps biting yours?  Or the one who kicks the teacher when he can't get what he wants? Well, guess what?  A new study has found that "aggression in school-age children may have its origins in children 3 years old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners," according to a study by Case Western Reserve University, as reported yesterday by newswise.com. “People may think children that young are passive and unaware, but they pay attention to what’s happening around them,” newswise.com quotes Megan Holmes, assistant professor of social work at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. The numbing fact is that between three million and 10 million children each year witness violence in their homes. While it's long been known that recent exposure to violence has a huge impact, what hasn't been so visible i...

Did you know that 30 to 60 percent of women in most countries experience sexual and domestic violence?  I was shocked to read that today in a New York Times Op-Ed.  Nicholas Kristoff argues that Delhi isn't so different from Steubenville, Ohio, where football players recently repeatedly raped a young unconscious woman, and I'm so sad to believe that he is right. According to Kristoff, "women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined."  And where are we?  In a country where Congress refused to renew the Violence Against Women Act. We like to think the horrific rape and ultimate death of the innocent young woman in India several weeks ago could never happen here.  But do we really think about women that much differently than many in that country, or the world, do? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/opinion/sunday/is-delhi-so-different-from-steub...