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326 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings3 Women 3 Ways radio shows feature world recognized experts and researchers to deliver current, objective and engaging information to raise awareness of social justice issues especially gendered violence and equality.
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A WAR STORY
November 12, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBA WAR STORY A war. A foreign country. A prisoner. An escape. An adventure. A journalist. A story of heroism, life and death, and history. Now admit it. You pictured at least one man (or more) as you read those words. But this story is about women, and the forgotten or never told stories of their lives. And another woman who wrote about one of those stories. Julia Airey lives in Washington, D.C. where she as a technology reporter and associated editor for a foreign policy site. In her...
WOMEN IN JAIL: OVERLOOKED AND EVER-GROWING
October 29, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBWOMEN IN JAIL: OVERLOOKED AND EVER-GROWING Women in prison are often perceived as the prostitutes, the "bad girls," the drug addicts. It's easy to just look at the labels without digging deeper to learn who are the women behind bars, what led them there, and what domestic violence has to do with their incarceration. And it's easy to overlook the fact that the number of women incarcerated is growing at a faster rate than any other jailed population. Elizabeth Swavola, Senior Pr...
GIRLS AND THEIR PERIODS: HELPING GIRLS IN POVERTY STAY PART OF THE WORLD
October 22, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBYou probably don't think too much about sanitary supplies. If you are a woman, you get them when you need them, and if you are a man, you probably don't think of them at all. But girls in Third World Countries, just like many homeless and poverty stricken, are often forced to miss school, be socially ostracized, and isolated during those days of the month. An organization called Days for Girls has quietly been working not only to bring these young women supplies, but also to study exactly ...
AUDRIE & DAISY: THE FILM AND THE STORY OF TEEN SEXUAL ASSAULT
October 15, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBAUDRIE & DAISY: THE FILM AND THE STORY OF TEEN SEXUAL ASSAULT We read about it every week – a teenage girl sexually assaulted by classmates or neighbor boys, and what happens next is more horrible than the physical violence. What happens next in so many of these cases, is the girl is bullied, ridiculed, and slut shamed, and if she dares to report it to police, she is often the butt of community-wide derision, victim blaming, and campaigns to trivialize what happened and to discredit her. I...
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT, NATIVE AMERICANS AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS
October 08, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT, NATIVE AMERICANS AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS According to the Dept. of Justice, Native American women have higher rates of domestic violence, coupled with low income rates, higher rates of sexual assault, and the list goes on and on. So what can we learn, how can we fight, and what are we doing about native populations and assault? During this month of focusing awareness on domestic violence, let’s add some special lighting to cultures that are facing special batt...
WHAT’S STEM, WHO’S THE AAUW AND HOW IS IT ALL ABOUT GIRLS?
October 01, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBWHAT’S STEM, WHO’S THE AAUW AND HOW IS IT ALL ABOUT GIRLS? More girls are going to college, so why aren’t there more female scientists? Or mathematicians? Or computer developers and engineers? Good question, and one that many organizations are trying to get a handle on, including the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The problem has led to numerous programs designed to figure out education, careers, and pay for women. The AAUW issued a groundbreaking report a few ye...
WHAT ABOUT RACE, GENDER AND JUSTICE IN CHINA?
September 24, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBWHAT ABOUT RACE, GENDER AND JUSTICE IN CHINA? Join several recent travelers to Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai as they relate experiences, observations and comments about visiting and living in China. How do women and minorities there compare to what Americans experience? Are we more alike than different? What can we learn from each other? The conversation is open and it may get wild, as we talk about China, as seen by foreign visitors. Call in with your comments to 646-378-0430, or po...
CLEOPATRA AND YOU: MORE IN COMMON THAN YOU THINK?
September 10, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBCLEOPATRA AND YOU: MORE IN COMMON THAN YOU THINK? We’ve all seen the movies of Egyptian ancients and how they treated their women, and we all are thankful we live in an era that is kinder to us, right? Well, maybe not. Is there something we can learn about those women of the past and their day to day lives that might help us as we look at where we are now in our culture and our struggles? You might be surprised. Professor Janet H. Johnson, professor of Egyptology in the Oriental Institute...
SOCIAL NORMS AND BYSTANDER INTERVENTION: HOW WE FEEL ABOUT DOING RIGHT
September 03, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBSOCIAL NORMS AND BYSTANDER INTERVENTION: HOW WE FEEL ABOUT DOING RIGHT Bystander intervention, doing the right thing, all doing our part to prevent violence…it all sounds great, but maybe not so easy. Do we really want to get involved? Do men always feel good about standing up to prevent violence? These are heady questions, and questions that really need answers as we think about prevention programs and safety. Alan Berkowitz got his PhD in Psychology from Cornell, and has been working ev...
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT VIOLENCE?
August 27, 2016 18:00 - 58 minutes - 53 MBWHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT VIOLENCE? Sounds idealistic, doesn’t it? That each of us can prevent interpersonal violence may be a lofty goal, but can it really work? One organization, Green Dot, etc., thinks it’s doable, and that research, commitment and the willingness to try a new approach is just what we need to be effective to reduce power-based personal violence. Dr. Dorothy J. Edwards, author of the Green Dot Violence Prevention Strategy, holds a Ph.D. in Counselin...
POLICING, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: ACLU REPORT
August 20, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBPOLICING, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: ACLU REPORT Do police responders believe victims? Do they take reports of sexual violence seriously? If you call police will that trigger unwanted contact from child protection services? To find out the answers to those questions and more, the ACLU did a nationwide survey of domestic violence and sexual assault and the police response over a one month period last year. Donna Coker, MSW, JD, and professor of law at University of Miami, help...
WHAT’S IN A NAME WHEN IT COMES TO ABUSE?
August 13, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBWHAT’S IN A NAME WHEN IT COMES TO ABUSE? It was domestic violence, then violence against women. Then came intimate terrorism, and then abuse. Sometimes intimate partner violence, and now it’s gendered violence. Are we talking about the same thing? Is this just semantics, or political correctness or do these names refer to different things? Why the changes in terminology and what does it all mean? Merril Cousin is the Executive Director of the recently renamed Coalition Ending Gender-Base...
VIRTUAL LEGAL CLINIC HELPS VICTIMS OF GENDERED VIOLENCE
August 06, 2016 18:00 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MBVictims of Intimate Partner Abuse often struggle with the courts and legal systems as much as they do with their abusers. The cost, the availability, the misinformation and lack of understanding they face as they try to find lawyers and work their way through the maze of courts, laws and agencies can be staggering. In Chicago, however, some victims are finding relief thanks to a virtual legal clinic offered by area lawyers and the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The only one in ...
I'M SORRY: TALKING WHILE FEMALE
July 30, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB"I'm sorry," "I'm no expert, but...," "I think." You know you've used them. The qualifiers and minimizers women learn to use when talking so we don't sound bossy or pushy. While we may have come a long way in careers and money, is it possible that we haven't come far at all in equalizing the language we use in our relationships and our careers? Is there a female way to speak? And does it really matter? Some studies have shown that men and women use different language, but it is much more com...
WHAT'S HIGH TECH HAVE TO DO WITH ABUSE?
July 23, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBMany people are familiar with how technology can be used to perpetrate intimate partner abuse, whether a victim is stalked, tracked, or rarassed using phones and computers, or whether an abuser threatens, isolates or destroys using high tech equipment. But research is now showing that technology can be used not just as a tool to hurt someone, but also as a trigger for abuse. A study on the roles of phones and computers in abusing women by male perpetrators helps define all the ways technolog...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: THE HISTORY,THE REALITY, AND THE HOPE
July 16, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBCHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: THE HISTORY,THE REALITY, AND THE HOPE Think child sexual abuse is something that only happens to once in a while? That it couldn’t affect your life? Think again. It’s time to drag this silent issue out of the closet and learn exactly how prevalent it is and exactly what is being done about it. Find out what the signs of abuse are, what to do if your child or someone you know is being abused. And what about all those sex offender registries? And what about all the adul...
KIDS REFUSE TO SEE DAD? SEND ‘EM TO JAIL, ACCORDING TO ONE JUDGE
July 02, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBKIDS REFUSE TO SEE DAD? SEND ‘EM TO JAIL, ACCORDING TO ONE JUDGE Juvenile detention facilities are for the junior criminals in our society, right? A place to send the bad kids who are too young for prison, you might assume. But what if you knew of three nice kids, good in school, never in any trouble, who got sent to kiddie jail because they refused to meet with the father they say is abusive? That’s what happened to three Michigan youngsters, 15, 10, and 9 when a judge said they were in c...
PTSD, DISABILITIES AND THE COURTS: EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL?
June 25, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBPTSD, DISABILITIES AND THE COURTS: EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL? Did you know that as many as 85% of women who experience Intimate Partner Violence have PTSD? Some studies say a little less, but no matter which study you read, the numbers are alarming. Did you know that in courts a person with PTSD or other disability is often accused of being “crazy,” or lying to manipulate the court rather than being recognized as a person with a disability? Just because some disabilities are not visible doesn’...
HOW DO MEN BENEFIT FROM RAPE? THE ANSWER ISN’T AS OBVIOUS AS YOU THINK
June 18, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBHOW DO MEN BENEFIT FROM RAPE? THE ANSWER ISN’T AS OBVIOUS AS YOU THINK Yes, there’s THAT, but is that really the reason men rape? Especially in an age when sex is pretty acceptable and available no matter who you are, why go the forced route? Of course, most people realized decades ago that rape isn’t about sex, it’s about a type of control. But how do all men, not just the rapists benefit from a rape culture? Dr. Christopher Kilmartin is an emeritus college professor, author, co...
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RAPE, ANOTHER SLAP ON THE WRIST An Olympic caliber swimmer,
June 11, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RAPE, ANOTHER SLAP ON THE WRIST An Olympic caliber swimmer, a college student, a Stanford man…a rapist…a slap on the hand…all make for headlines and outrage. But maybe the overarching outrage over the Brock Turner story should be for how often this happens. How many times this story is repeated, how many times there isn’t even a slap on the hand, could be the real story here. Add in the letter the father of the rapist wrote to a judge trying to make the case for how...
THE POLITICS OF ANGER: THE HELP AND THE HINDRANCE
June 04, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBTHE POLITICS OF ANGER: THE HELP AND THE HINDRANCE It seems that every campaign, every electoral contest, stirs up deep emotions on both sides. Often that emotion is anger, and often it serves a purpose or at least accomplishes something for one side or the other. More times than not, it just shuts down discourse. So what is the politics of anger and how and why should we diffuse it? And does it matter more to women than to men? Nick Licata is a former Seattle City counci...
GENDER AND JUDGING: WOMEN ON THE BENCH
May 21, 2016 18:00 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBGENDER AND JUDGING: WOMEN ON THE BENCH Does it matter if you go before a male or a female judge? Do they make different decisions? And here’s an easy one: are there more men judges or women judges? Twenty years ago, pundits explained the low numbers of women on the bench by pointing out the low numbers of female law school grads. That explanation no longer holds water. So where are the women judges, and why should we care? Dr. Sally Kenney is the co-founder and co-chai...
WHY DOES HE DO THAT? HERE'S EXACTLY WHY!
May 14, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBWHY DOES HE DO THAT? HERE’S EXACTLY WHY! People who work in the field of domestic violence get frustrated whenever someone asks of a victim, “Why does she stay?” Why, they wonder, isn’t the question for the abuser, as in “Why does he do that?” Finally someone asked the question, and it was Chuck Derry, director of the Gender Violence Institute in Clearwater, Minnesota. The answers are not unexpected, but they are disturbing, revealing, and clearly paint a picture of abusers and their ...
MOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING: THE FUN STUFF
May 07, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBMOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING: THE FUN STUFF Humorist Erma Bombeck said, “When humor goes, there goes civilization.” That applies to motherhood as well. We all know the pain, the mess, the disappointment, the self-sacrifice, that motherhood brings. But it also brings amazing joy, huge rewards, and a lot of laughter (some of which isn’t revealed until much later). So let’s talk mothering and being mothered – and focus on the fun bits in honor of Mothers Day! Deanna Sundvick-Egge is the mot...
STRANGULATION: MORE COMMON THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
April 30, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBStrangulation is can be lethal within minutes, and can cause a victim to black out in seconds. It's also used a lot by domestic violence perpetrators. Sometimes it's not taken very seriously by courts or law enforcement, or even by victims, but as one survey indicated, nearly ten percent of women have been strangled by a partner in their lives. Gael B. Strack is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder for Alliance for HOPE International and she knows a lot about what strangulation is and...
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HONOR CRIMES, AND IMMIGRANT WOMEN: THE COMMON FACTOR
April 23, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBDOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HONOR CRIMES, AND IMMIGRANT WOMEN: THE COMMON FACTOR Domestic violence in the US, honor crimes in those “other” countries: are they really so different? And what can this mean for women who immigrate to the US and have experienced both? What are the connections, what are the commonalities, and what are the realities for women of all cultures when it comes to victimization by intimate partners? Jessica Winegar says the 18,000 women killed by abusers in the US between 2003...
INCEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY: IT'S A VERY COMPLICATED HISTORY
April 16, 2016 18:00 - 1 hourWhen doctors discovered that gonorrhea affected all classes of girls back in the late 19th Century, they dismissed any evidence about the transmission of the disease from fathers to daughters, and instead blamed --you guessed it-- women for the spread of the disease. It was poor housekeeping, not daddy dearest, accounting for the STD/ Author Lynn Sacco, assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee wrote "Unspeakable: Father - Daughter Incest in American Hist...
REMEMBER WOMEN'S COMMISSIONS? DO WE CARE ABOUT THEM ANYMORE?
April 09, 2016 18:00 - 1 hourRemember women's commissions? There was a time when such groups were appointed internationally, nationally, and even locally, to study the status of women and the progress being made in gender equality. But when was the last time you heard of one? What is the status of women's commissions, both internationally and in the US? What are they, why are they important, what is the history of them? And why are the US commissions struggling when the international one is strong? What is CEDAW and why ...
THE BUSINESS OF HEALTHCARE: MERGERS AND ACCESS, A WOMEN'S ISSUE
April 02, 2016 18:00 - 1 hourA woman in San Francisco recently was scheduled to have a Cesarean section and decided she wanted to have a tubal ligation at the time of that surgery. Her doctor agreed. The problem? The hospital where she was going to have the procedure, refused to allow the sterilization ecause it was a Catholic institution and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said the prodedure was "evil." Just go to another hospital you say? Well good luck with that. Many regions in this country have prohibitive di...
SO WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE CRISIS IN FAMILY COURTS?
March 26, 2016 18:00 - 1 hourResearch has indicated that far too often, family courts make decisions that hurt women and children who are already victims of abuse. For the many victims who have tried to fight such decisions and for the advocates and family members who witness such actions, it may seem that we are powerless against such decisions. But are we? Garland Waller, a professor, a film producer, and spokesperson on domestic violence joins us. She has made documentaries about court injustices since the 1980's, ...
JUDGES AND LAWYERS AND SHRINKS, OH MY: THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN FAMILY COURT CONFL
March 19, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThere are judges, guardians, lawyers, arbitrators, psychologists, advocates, mediators, child protection services, social workers, and more who all can be involved when there is a divorce or litigation in family courts across the country. Who are these people? What do they do? How expert are they? What do they know about intimate partner violence? Who do they represent? What do they cost? Do they help or hurt? And how can they impact decisions like child custody? There have been studies of t...
CRISIS IN THE FAMILY COURTS: THE ROLE OF THE FATHERS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT
March 12, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBTHE CRISIS IN THE FAMILY COURTS: THE ROLE OF THE FATHERS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT What is the Fathers' Rights Movement? What are the tenets of it, how did it get started, who are these people promoting it, and what is the reality behind the message? Judges are buying into it and women and children are impacted by the junk science and propaganda behind it. So what is the real research, and what can we do about the fall out from this movement? Join us as author Doreen Ludwig talks about the movemen...
WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR FAMILY COURTS?
March 05, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBWHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR FAMILY COURTS? Abuse through the courts, revictimization, parental alienation, women lie, children given to abusers, judges who think that just because a woman is frantic there is something wrong with her, guardians ad litem, lawyers, psychologists, and a system that arguably makes more things worse than it makes them better, So what’s going on in our family courts? Two experts who really know the experiences, the reasons, and the truth behind the...
GUNS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ABUSERS
February 27, 2016 19:00 - 59 minutes - 54 MBThere are federal laws saying convicted domestic violence abusers can't buy guns, but what if they already own firearms? There's a good chance they can just keep them and no police or judges or even laws will make them surrender what they already own. And even if a state does require relinquishment it's up to judges to require it. Shannon Frattacoli, PhD., Associate Director for Outreach, Center for Injury Research and Policy at Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research has studied ...
MATERNAL HEALTH IN POOR AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
February 20, 2016 22:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWhere can you find pregnant 12-year-olds, women pregnant again and again just months after giving birth, and teens with high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV, and multiple pregnancies? A third world country perhaps? Maybe. But you really don't have to look that far. Right here inthe USA we have areas where there are no local access to maternal health care, where extreme poverty prevents women from getting medicine or from transportation to doctors. So how rampant is this problem, who is affecte...
FAMILY COURT RESPONSES TO INCEST AND SEXUAL ABUSE IN CUSTODY DISPUTES
February 13, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBFAMILY COURT RESPONSES TO INCEST AND SEXUAL ABUSE IN CUSTODY DISPUTES The Boston Globe just ran a story about a little girl who, for five years, was forced by the courts to live with the father who she said was sexually abusing her. The girl’s mother believed the child, and took her to the doctor, then to the psychologist, and everyone believed the girl. Then they got to the courts and that’s where the child’s life hit a very sad bottom. Even sadder: this is happening all the time. Thousa...
REVICTIMIZING THE VICTIM: WHEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUFFERRERS GET HIT AGAIN
January 23, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBThere is a woman in Florida who was sent to jail for not testifying against her attacked. Her attacker was her husband. She defied a court order when she didn't show up at his trial. Advocates say she was scared, and that it happens all the time that a victim doesn't face her abuser in court. They say most judges understand and don't revictimize the victim by punishing her. Some say a court order is a court order, and if witnesses don't appear in court, criminials get off. That's just the w...
PRETTY IS AS PRETTY GETS: DO ATTRACTIVE WOMEN GET BETTER GRADES?
January 16, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBPRETTY IS AS PRETTY GETS: DO ATTRACTIVE WOMEN GET BETTER GRADES? I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl. Evangeline Lilly Lilly doesn’t mention her grades, but if her experience is typical of that found in a recent study, she probably got higher marks than her less attractive female friends. Yep – pretty girls get better grades, according to an economics professor’s study of more than 5,000 college women. And it didn’...
WOMEN IN MEDIA
January 09, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWomen in the media - where are they? what is their influence? Find out with Katy McCarthy from the Women's Media Center
SO HOW DO YOU “UNSLUT?”
January 02, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBAny girl who ever went to junior high risked being called a slut. You know what a slut is, right? It's any girl who was promiscuous, looked like she might be promiscuors, or like she might be developed sexually, or like she might someday have sex, or was just unlucky enough to be targeted by bullies. Emily Lindin knows all about that since she was the target of "slut shaming" from age 11 to 14. But unlike most of us who just geot depressed and kept our heads down, she's doing something about...
MISUSE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN CUSTODY LITIGATION
December 19, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBMISUSE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN CUSTODY LITIGATION Do you know that the Leadership Council estimates nearly 60,000 kids a year are forced by the courts to be with an unsafe parent? One article in Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly (spring 2013) reported 175 documented cases of kids killed by their fathers after the court disregarded their mothers’ concerns about safety for children – and that was in just a two year period! So what’s up with the courts? How can this ...
SIBLING VIOLENCE
December 12, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThis show is a replay of a previously aired episode A friend once told me that her brother made her sit in a lawn chair while he attached it to a car battery to make an electric chair. What?! Sometimes sibling rivalry isn't harmless. Sometimes it's violent abuse that can lead to problems in adulthood for victims. Two people who work with and have experienced sibling abuse join us to talk about what it is, how it is minimized, and the later implications for victi...
GENDER AND THE HEALTH CARE BUSINESS
December 05, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBWith the healthcare business being what it is today, it seems like all the health care providers are parts of big organizations and most of those organizations are headed up by men. So if there is a difference between men and women in the way patients are treated and care is dispensed, what does it mean if most of the direct providers are female and the head honchos are male? Lots of questions, some answers. Andrea Piatt, PhD., ABPP, is the principal and founder of Commonwealth Psychology A...
TREATING FIRST RESPONDERS
November 28, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBA Washington State police officer turned psychologist looks at the treatment of first responders who are just expected to deal with it in the aftermath of some pretty nasty and traumatic work. Loreli Thompson, PhD also counsels victims of trauma and violence. Join us as we look at the world of the first responder.
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE
November 21, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBThere's been a push for years to have doctors, nurses, and health care folks to become more involved in screening and treating victims of intimate partner violence. There have been flyers taped in bathrooms, brochures stacked in waiting rooms, and once in a while a quesion about domestic violence on an intake form. But what are we really doing, is this the appropriate response, and what can we do better? Project Connect, a program funded by the Department of Human Serivces, has trained docto...
"BANKROLLING THE BENCH" - HOW SPECIAL INTERESTS INFLUENCE THE COURTS
November 14, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBThink big business and big money are only influencing politics? Have you looked at judicial elections lately? A report issued by Justice at Stake found that special interest spending is skyrocketing in even obscure and small town judicial elections, and that is leading to some heavy influence at play for special interests. Not such good news for the "little people" who are looking to the courts to help settle issues in our lives. So how bad is the problem, and what can we do about it? Scott ...
FATAL FAMILIES- WHEN CHILDREN ARE KILLED AND FAMILIES ARE WIPED OUT
November 07, 2015 19:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWe see it all too often in the news - dad (once in awhile it's mom), goes nuts and kills mom, the kids, anyone who happens to be in the way, and then, often, himself. What is going on here? The media stories often say something just snapped for dad. Domestic violence experts look at it as an extreme form of control that erupts when an abused women tries to leave. But what is really going on, and why on earth does the perpetrator kill the poor kids? Sharon Maillous, PhD did a research study i...
CHILDREN EXPOSED TO TRAUMA
October 31, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBCasey Gwin, attorney and president of the Family Justice Center, joins us to discuss children who grow up exposed to trauma like domestic violence and his new book, "Cheering for the Children."
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE, ATTRACTION, AND INTELLECT, AND WHY WE CARE
October 24, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBThey used to say men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses, but that was a long time ago before we became enlightened and all gender neutral. Or..was it? According to a recent study, men are less attracted to women who are smarter than they are, at least when the women are psychologically close by. They apparently feel differently about women who are more out of reach. So what does this mean for relationships today? And what does that say about our culture, our society, and our progre...
SO ARE THERE SOME GOOD PARTS TO THIS GROWING OLD THING?
October 17, 2015 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBSO ARE THERE SOME GOOD PARTS TO THIS GROWING OLD THING? Let’s see…you get old, your knees go bad, you forget things, you’re no longer socially relevant, and your hair gets thinner, right? Well, maybe. But the big surprise is that there are actually some pretty good things about aging that no one seems to be talking about. So we will. Join us as Dr. Ken Dellefield, a San Diego consulting psychologist and gerontologist helps us uncover and celebrate all the unexpected gifts and joys that fac...