
Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent words about her harrowing abuse with descriptions of other women's similar experiences and a rich synthesis of statistical findings, Jody Raphael demonstrates convincingly that domestic violence and dependence on public assistance...

Raphael (executive director of the Center for Impact Research) describes the responses one partner of a battered woman on welfare made to the woman's efforts to obtain employment, thus illustrating some of the ways in which welfare and abuse trap battered women. She maintains...