DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SELECT EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 7927 and H.R. 8948 TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor 25-735 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1978 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman FRANK THOMPSON, JR., New Jersey * MARIO BIAGGI, New York IKE ANDREWS, North Carolina EDWARD P. BEARD, Rhode Island MICHAEL O. MYERS, Pennsylvania CEC HEFTEL, Hawaii BALTASAR CORRADA, Puerto Rico DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan ALBERT H. QUIE, Minnesota JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont BUD SHUSTER, Pennsylvania CONTENTS Bellfield, Kenyari, co-coordinator, Harriet Tubman Shelter, Minne- apolis, Minn.; Rose Marie Hengesbach, director, Women's Center, YWCA of St. Joseph County, Ind.; Veronica Maz, executive director, House of Ruth, Washington, D.C.; Anne W. Steytler, cofounder, Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh; and James C. Walsh, executive director, Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk, Boggs, Hon. Lindy, a Representative in Congress from the State of Brown, Samuel W., Jr., Director, ACTION. Cardenas, Blandina, Commissioner, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by Gerald Klerman, Administrator, Alcohol Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration___. Feldman, Harold, professor, Cornell University; Bonnie Tinker, chair- person, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Elisa Sanchez, persident, Mexican American Women's National Association; Steven Antler, professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers; Kinsey Green, execu- tive director, American Home Economics Association; Ana Ramares, chairperson, Monroe County, Ind., Task Force of Federal Family Violence Legislation; and Sara-Ann Determan, co-chairperson, Committee on Women's Rights, American Bar Association__ Fields, Marjory, attorney, Brooklyn Legal Services Corp--- Fleming, Jennifer, director, Women's Resource Network, Philadel- 267 Navarro, Tina, founder, Center for Battered Women, Austin, Tex_ Noffsinger, Georgene, Gaithersburg, Md., and Yolanda Bako, Women's Survival Space, Center for the Elimination of Violence in the Family, Pagelow. Mildred, Department of Sociology, University of Califor- Scheuer, Hon. James H., a Representative in Congress from the Schudson, Charles B., assistant district attorney, Milwaukee County; Larry Moss, officer, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C.; and Lynn Kahn, psychologist, Spring Grove Hospital Center, Catonsville, Md., and St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C.---- 398 |