While doing a some online research regarding domestic violence and battered woman syndrome, I found an excellent free resource that I wanted to share. It's called The Women's Rights Handbook and it comes from the website of the California Attorney General's Office. In particular, Chapter 7 has information about violent crimes committed against women and children, including advice for how to defend yourself in an attack, definitions of "sexual assault" and "domestic violence," and information about how to deal with domestic violence when it happens to you.

Other chapters of The Women's Rights Handbook discuss your legal rights relating to many areas of life, including employment, economic independence, education, housing, health care, domestic relations, and child care. The last chapter includes a directory for finding services and more information. You may also want to look at the domestic violence brochure (PDF) put out by the California Attorney General's Office.

Please remember, however, that your computer is probably keeping track of what you view online. If you are using a computer at home, someone else might be able to see which websites you have viewed. If you do not know how to "cover your tracks" by using a privacy mode or deleting history and cookies, then you should probably look at these websites from a computer in the home of someone you trust, or in a public library.