The following list of tapes is a collection of material on the subject of abuse.  The readers are encouraged to use their own judgment in selecting and using or discarding material for individual needs.   This list is continually updated as new material is added.  Order from your local bookstore, Christian bookstore, or Adventist Book Center.

Updated 1/27/03

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: EPIDEMIC, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, CRIME AND SIN. Linda Ammons. Law professor at Cleveland-Marshall School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, Ammons is an advocate for battered women. This 45-minute audiotape includes her presentation and follow-up questions at an assembly for La Sierra University students, faculty, staff and visitors on November 11, 1999. Only in the last decade of the 20th century have significant numbers of people declared that domestic terrorism should be outlawed. There are more animal shelters in the United States than shelters for battered women. While men also experience abuse, 90 percent of those battered are women. Why don’t women leave their batterers? The answers vary from a woman having a lack of resources and no safe place to go, to pressure from family members and clergy to keep the family together. A significant factor in a woman’s staying in an abusive relationship is the traditional religious belief that women are to obey their husbands. Counsellors working with abused Christian women have found that 55 percent said their husbands had said the violence would stop if they would be more submissive. Violence, including domestic violence, is inconsistent with the Jesus’ mandate to love one another as we love ourselves. Battering breaks this divine commandment. In a survey of churches in the United States conducted by Ammons, less than half of the 63 per cent who responded have issued a statement protesting domestic violence. Between 1989 and 1991 Ammons was the principal person in the Governor of Ohio’s office to examine cases of women who had been incarcerated for killing their abusers. The project led the governor to give clemency to 28 Ohio women – the largest number released so far in such a project. To order: send $5.00 per tape to Women’s Resource Center, La Sierra University, 4700 Pierce Street, Riverside, CA 92515.

IN DEFENCE OF THE HELPLESS, Charles R. Swindoll, 1992. Insight for Living Listener Services Division 800/772-8888. $6.00 + $1.00 S&H. PO Box 69000, Anaheim, CA 92817-0900. One tape of a series "Shedding Light on Our Dark Side." A pastor's and church's response and strong support for victims of abuse when abuse was discovered perpetrated by an elder in the church. An outstanding pattern to emulate in dealing with abuse in the church.

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