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Shelter for battered women is available
Staff Renorter
Bv LYNN WILLIAMS
Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Services Inc., a support group for battered women and women going through separations, opened the doors of its new house last week.
"We have been on call for two years. We just haven't had a shelter," Judy Woolfeil, treasurer of the group and assistant director of the Foreign Students Service, said yesterday.
The address of the new transitional residence is being kept confidential for security reasons.
"Most of the women will be in unaffected conditions and will be seeking shelter where they really can't be."
About three a day have been calling the service's new phone number, 841-6887, she said.
The service occasionally has received referrals from the police and the emergency room at Lawrence Hall.
However, the group does not investigate complaints by neighbors of abused wives, she said.
"THE WOMAN must make the move herself
because we also find that often women, until they are ready to get out of a situation, resent interference in
The average victim of abuse is a woman in a low-income family who feels she has less or no choice, she said. About half have children and no few have marketable skills.
"Women almost always lose financially when they move on a man." Woeil said.
But not all abused wives are poor, she said. The service has received calls from University wives and others.
*IT REALLY is not a working class phenomenon," she said. However, low-income women have fewer choices and thus are more likely to call, she said. More women continue to vote to pay a doctor or a lawyer.
The battered wife may have some responsibility for her condition, Woelfel said, because battered women believe they cannot take care of themselves and learn to be victims.
Women who call the service are not always frantic, Woelfel said. "Some call and are pretty much complaining," she said.
Sometimes they in turn will batter their children,
she said. "You alwayskick someone below you."
"Others say he's going to come home. I have got to get out with my kids."
**OFFEN THE woman has no car. Woofel said.**
Members of the group may pick her up at her house.
There are no other places where she can stay.
Woeel told many women called on Monday mornings. "I think it's because it's been after a weekend of being with a man and that's when he's home being abusive," she said.
"They don't even get to a phone when their husbands are there."
You will not be able to hand abbreviate. She said.
Sometimes the police are asked to accompany them to a home.
Most wife beaters don't recognize they have a problem and require little provocation, Wefel said.
She gave examples of men who beat their wives for saying the wrong thing, cooking dinner or wrong
leaving a door open and letting air conditioning escape from a room.
"The wives do get paranoid because the attacks are not provoked," she said.
She told of a man who came upon his wife when she was sleeping in her bed in the middle of the night.
"He took two knives and slashed both her legs," she said.
Alcohol is more often an excuse for abuse than a reason for it, she said. Alcohol is involved in about 50 crimes.
THE WOMEN working in WTCS calls themselves advocates. They have had at least 30 hours of training and experience with counselling and counseling skills, crisis intervention, separation and divorce and sensitivity to living in different environments.
The group has no hierarchy other than that required for legal incorporation. They require a
Rent for the house is being paid with private donations and donations from the Kansas East Association.
Only one of the group's 35 members, Dana Pahrem, is paid for her work. She is paid for a 20-hour week at the house but her job actually takes many more hours, Woelff said.
Her salary comes from donations from the First United Methodist Church. The First Presbyterian Church has also provided money and support for the group, she said.
She said the group had applied for community development funds and had been refused.
"I THINK the city and county should have supported us," Woolfe said. She said Social Rehabilitation Services responded more quickly to a woman if she was accompanied by a member of WTCS.
"Battering is caused by our social situation and women's situations in society," she said.
They also consider the battered woman's priorities above those of her husband or children.
Some of the group's members have been battered and are former clients; about half are KU students.
Harper,11 others meet with Blumenthal
Mike Harper, student body president, recently met with members of the Carter administration to discuss the effects of inflation on students.
Talks progressing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Egypt and Israel held new direct negotiations Wednesday, amid American assurances that all was going well in the peace talks between them.
The direct talks, held late in the afternoon, followed almost two days during which the United States talked separately with Iraq and then between President Carter and each delegation.
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