“Until recently, many child protection agencies saw battered women -and their advocates- as the enemy” Child protection agencies don't care for women. Many child protection agencies portray abused women to be careless, weak, and unloving.
The start of women abuse began way back in the day. Many men got away with violence towards women. They would take their anger out on us because they were raised thinking it was okay to hit and abuse women. Men used to think women were weak and the sexist views on women being superior to men didn't help. Women use to have one job, and one job only; a housewife. Girls were raised not to work; they were to stay home to cook, clean, and raise or take care of children. Men were sent to work to be the only support for the family. That's how it worked. The rise of feminist helped greatly in ending this abuse and letting women be …show more content…
Sharwline (pronounced “Charlene”) Nicholson began to put the justice for battered women in affect in 1999 along with the help of the suffragette movement. The suffragette movement was a campaign about how women were not entitled to vote on an equal status with men that happened in 1903. The turning point for Sharwline was when the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) took her children after she tried seeking help from being a victim of domestic violence. Since she was abused the ACS charged her for being engaged in domestic violence and continued to remove her children from her to place them in a foster home. Nicholson would not stand for this; she gathered nine other mothers and had a forty-four witness trial. Judge Weinstein was appointed the case and during the trial he had, “...ordered the ACS to stop removing children from mothers whose only “crime” is being battered”. Due to the help of the suffragette movement and the brave people involved in the case, Sharwline was able to win the lawsuit against the ACS in
The start of women abuse began way back in the day. Many men got away with violence towards women. They would take their anger out on us because they were raised thinking it was okay to hit and abuse women. Men used to think women were weak and the sexist views on women being superior to men didn't help. Women use to have one job, and one job only; a housewife. Girls were raised not to work; they were to stay home to cook, clean, and raise or take care of children. Men were sent to work to be the only support for the family. That's how it worked. The rise of feminist helped greatly in ending this abuse and letting women be …show more content…
Sharwline (pronounced “Charlene”) Nicholson began to put the justice for battered women in affect in 1999 along with the help of the suffragette movement. The suffragette movement was a campaign about how women were not entitled to vote on an equal status with men that happened in 1903. The turning point for Sharwline was when the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) took her children after she tried seeking help from being a victim of domestic violence. Since she was abused the ACS charged her for being engaged in domestic violence and continued to remove her children from her to place them in a foster home. Nicholson would not stand for this; she gathered nine other mothers and had a forty-four witness trial. Judge Weinstein was appointed the case and during the trial he had, “...ordered the ACS to stop removing children from mothers whose only “crime” is being battered”. Due to the help of the suffragette movement and the brave people involved in the case, Sharwline was able to win the lawsuit against the ACS in