click for more info Last week we did part one of self-defense tips for women. As we discussed women consistently outdo men as the targets of violence by a 9 to 1 margin. So it is no wonder that self-defense companies including Taser International target women for their products. There are more pink pepper sprays, stun guns and tasers on the market...

click for more info Here are a couple of stories about how women use self-defense product pepper sprays to defend themselves. In the first article "Arlington Heights police say a woman managed to use pepper spray to fend off a potential attacker who tried to pull her from her car in a parking lot. You can read the rest of the story...

click image for more details This is a story out of Idaho regarding domestic violence and how it affects the child's routine. You can read the whole story HERE. In part the article says "Even if children don’t see domestic violence, they almost always know it’s happened. And sometimes that’s just as bad as witnessing it first-hand, Caroline Collins, Child Welfare Scholars...

click for more info The World Health Organization or W.H.O. which is an arm of the UN released a report recently that called sexual assaults against women "epidemic" You can read the whole story HERE. The World Health Organization has concluded that violence and sexual assaults against women has reached a worldwide "epidemic." According to a report from the UN's World Health...

click for more info It is well established fact that women are the targets of violence in nine out 10 cases-everything from assaults, rapes, domestic violence. Even in home invasions, women are the preferred targets. So it makes sense for women to be more aware of that fact so they can learn how to defend themselves a little bit better. Here are...

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) first international study into the prevalence of violence against women found that one in four women in high-income countries have been abused by their partners, compared with a third of women worldwide. You can read the rest of the story HERE. Partner-perpetrated violence was highest in the south-east Asian region at 37.7 per cent, followed by the...