Her appearing disheveled and hysterical and really self-blaming, and him appearingflippant and blaming her as well.

Ruth Glenn

Ifyou have a 'sensationalized' casenot only does the media and society in general become interested but there's also awareness that comes…for victimsandsurvivors of domestic violence, unfortunately, what also happens is that [it] is short-lived.

As a survivor myself, I can't tellyou how many times I've been in that instancewhere I could tell something bad was going to happen.