A Practical Guide to Self Defense for Women
There are stories on the news every day of assaults on women. Sometimes the women manage to fight back and get away, and sometimes they don’t. Women can be assaulted in parking lots, in stores, in offices, or in other public places that might seem safe.
Women also can be assaulted in their homes by strangers or even by loved ones.
Even though attacks against women seem random usually they aren’t. Low estimates by the National Organization of Women say that 1,400 women per year are killed by their spouses and there are more than 572,000 reported incidents of women being battered by a spouse.
More than 100,000 of those reported assaults were so serious that the women ended up in the hospital.
According to women’s groups and the police more than 130,000 rapes are reported each year. Police estimate that the actual number of rapes is six times that figure but most rapes are never reported. More than half of the women raped every year know their attackers. Stranger rape and assault is far less common than a woman being attacked by someone she knows.
It’s important that you know you know to defend yourself against an attack from a stranger, but it is also important to know how to stop an attack by someone you love.
Most women think that they never will be assaulted but thousands of women are attacked everyday. Knowing how to stop an attack or how to survive an attack could save your life.
It’s also important that you talk to your children, especially your daughters, about self defense.
Kids are especially vulnerable because they are usually taught by their parents to respect adults and to do what adults tell them to do. It’s hard for parents to instill a sense of respect for authority in their kids while at the same teaching them that it’s okay to scream or yell or make a scene in certain situations.
Making sure that your kids understand the difference can mean keeping them safe so it’s important that you learn how to talk to your kids about their own safety.
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