Mejor Sola Que Mal Acompanada: Para la Mujer Golpeada - For the Latina in an Abusive Relationship » (Spanish Language Edition)

If you're a Latina involved in a physically or emotionally abusive relationship, this book is for you. "Mejor Sola Que Mal Acompanada" offers support, understanding, and practical information on many issues and questions, including: what abuse is; family and cultural expectations; getting police, medical, and legal assistance; where you can go if you leave your home; what the church may say; protecting your children; and dealing with discrimination.

This book also discusses special problems of the undocumented woman, the woman with few resources, and the woman who speaks little or no English. Informative and affirming, "Mejor Sola" is an invaluable resource for counselors, shelter workers and activists, and an empowering handbook for the Latina who wants to break free from the cycle of abuse.

Publishers Weekly

There is an old Latina expression, the author reports: A man is not truly a man if he beats his wife only once. He has to do it twice. Zambrano maintains that 1.8 million women per yeara surprising number of them Latinasare beaten in the U.S. by husbands or lovers. Writing in both Spanish and English, the author, a Mexican-American bilingual counselor for battered Latinas, offers victims of family violence encouragement, sensitive understanding and valuable advice: how to get into a shelter for battered women, how to find police protection, how to prevent a husband from kidnapping the children. She also addresses the Latin woman's particular problemsunsympathetic police officers, lack of immigration documentation, the need for interpretersand includes a chapter for social service workers who help Latinas, a glossary of legal terms and a bibliography. This excellent, clear-headed book is the third in Seal Press's series on family violence. November