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- This article is about the ethics-related issue of abuse. For the computer game, see Abuse (computer game). For a similar word (e.g. a make of padlocks), see Abus.
Abuse is a general term for the use or treatment of something (person, thing, idea, etc.) that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person or thing, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) or is unlawful or wrongful. Its close synonyms are mistreatment and maltreatment. The word "misuse" has a more distant meaning of incorrect, uneducated use, not necessary harmful.
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Alaska Gov. Palin To Resign
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:44:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign, says she will resign from office July 26.
Gov. Ted Strickland On Ohio's Budget Impasse
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:00 -0400
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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 -0400
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The Talk of the Town
Lauren Collins: Track School
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Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
The most improbable of America’s mass movements for civil rights--improbable at the time, inevitable in retrospect--got its start at a most improbable hour in a most improbable place. The hour: two in the morning, forty years ago. The place: the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall Inn, a . . .
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) - Offers information and resources on violence and various types of abuse. Provides links to related resources, including information about child abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, and elder abuse.
A.M.A. Reports: Violence Prevention - Addresses many types of violence.
Meta Description: [ Provides information on violence prevention and AMA-related programs and resources. ]
Abuse and Violence in Relationships - Articles, advice, tips, newsletter and forum on abuse in general as well as child abuse, sexual abuse.
Andrew Vachss' Help Resources - Resources and collected news articles on matters of abuse, violence and neglect.
Meta Description: [ A searchable database of articles, agencies, organizations and websites for help, research and information that purport to serve the issues which concern us; child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, animal welfare, mental health, health care, juvenile justice, human trafficking and more. ]
Internet Campaign Against Violence - Internet movement devoted to the promotion of healthy, non-violent means of solving conflicts.
Matrism/Patrism Explained - An explanation of the random violence that has erupted in the community at the end of the twentieth century that was predicted by G.R Taylor's theory of Matrism/Patrism.
Meta Description: [ Why random violence has erupted in the community at the end of the twentieth century as predicted by G.R Taylor's theory of 'Matrism/Patrism'. ]
Power-Under: Trauma and Nonviolent Social Change - Online book about connections between oppression, trauma, and internalized powerlessness, with strategies for breaking cycles of violence.
Meta Description: [ Power-Under: Trauma And Nonviolent Social Change is a book by Steven Wineman analyzing connections between oppression, trauma, and internalized powerlessness. ]
Quit Abuse Society - Compilation of links to support sites for various types of abuse.
Meta Description: [ Resources for abuse victims. Links for sites dedicated to helping victims of all types of abuse and neglect. Anonymous message board and guest book. ]
Seeds Of Promise - Series of quarterly reports which examine the underlying causes of increasing violence in society.
The Scapegoat Society - Illustrates the dynamics of scapegoating and how to neutralize it. For scapegoaters' targets and students of scapegoating psychology.
Meta Description: [ The Scapegoat Society analyses scapegoating and the undoing of blame. For scapegoaters' targets and students of scapegoating psychology ]
The Violence Institute Of New Jersey At UMNDJ - Assists New Jersey in addressing the unacceptably high rates of violence statewide.
Violence As A Public Health Issue - Provides summaries, abstracts to cases, and law review articles dealing with the problem of preventing violence in the United States of America.
Violence Prevention - Listing of resources dealing with preventing violence towards children.
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