Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje of the San Antonio Express-News explores the risk of abuse and homicide for pregnant women. She writes:
Experts say from 4 percent to 8 percent of pregnant women are physically hurt by their partners — that's 160,000 to 320,000 women a year. For some, the beatings are fatal.
Sara Cardine of The (Stockton, Calif.) Record reports on a PTSD treatment group for female veterans.
Cardine writes:
... The program helps women deal with multiple sources of trauma. It's not uncommon for veterans to be living with PTSD and military sexual trauma, according to Dr. Darrah Westrup, a clinical psychologist and director of the Women's Mental Health Center.
A total of 3,796 women who left the military since Sept. 11, 2001, and sought VA care were thought to have PTSD, and an additional 500 sought mental services for chemical dependency, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Among all female veterans using VA services, about one in five screened positive for military sexual trauma, roughly 20 times the rate of male veterans.
Seattle Times sports columnist Jerry Brewer continues a series following an 11-year-old girl (daughter of a local high school basketball coach) who has terminal cancer. The latest installment focuses on the community that has gathered around the girl and her family.
Brewer has also been keeping a blog about his reporting for this series ...
(Via Crosscut Seattle)
New York Times reporter Eric Nossiter writes about the "giant slow-motion reconstruction project" taking place in New Orleans ...
