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Welcome to help and advice

Are you being hurt by someone who is supposed to care about you? Did you experience abuse as a child? This information can help.

Abuse or domestic violence in relationships

  • QUIZ: Warning signs of abuse in relationships and families
  • Stories and advice about surviving domestic violence
  • Are you happy? Information on abuse in relationships
  • Abuse in same sex and genderqueer relationships
  • Helping children who witness family violence
  • Technology Safety Tips

Legal protection and mediation

  • Legal protection and safety ideas
  • Preparing for mediation: tips from women who have experienced domestic violence

For women with disabilities

  • Getting free from abuse: an online guide based on the experiences and stories of women with disabilities

Child sexual abuse

  • Child sexual abuse: for adults who experienced abuse in childhood
  • From pregnancy to parenting: a guide for survivors of child sexual abuse

For young people: abuse in your family or relationship

  • What's Okay at Home?: when something’s not right at home, or in your family
  • Download Something Not Right At Home? booklet (293kb) about abuse in families, based on the previous Bursting The Bubble website
  • Love: the good, the bad and the ugly: a guide to respect and abuse in relationships

For family, friends and parents

  • Is someone you know being abused in a relationship?
  • For mothers and others concerned about children who witness family violence

Advice from people who have been there

Abuse doesn’t get better if you don’t do anything; it just keeps getting worse. You have to be your own friend. You have to have compassion for yourself.

Don’t punish yourself – I never thought I’d be in an abusive relationship but I WAS.

Once the “sorrys” don’t mean anything more than just as a way of keeping you right where he/she wants you, then it’s time to leave.

See Stories to read real stories from people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse in relationships.

The quotes above are just some of the advice that they have.

Learn from their experiences by reading about what happened to them, how they coped, what helped, and their advice for others. See also stories from women with disabilities.

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