Source # 3

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Youth Violence: Strategies for Prevention and Early Intervention
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Janet Carter
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	Making the Link
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Family Violence Prevention Fund
Date Page was Last Revised	11 January 2011
Date You Read It	8 January 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	<http://www.mincava.umn.edu/link/documents/fvpf2/fvpf2.shtml>

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Janet Carter states that "many of the factors highly associated with the occurrence of child abuse are also associated with domestic violence, and many of these are the same factors that put children at risk for youth violence and adult violent crime" (POV).

Janet Carter provides a statistic stating that "researchers found that 50% of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently assaulted their children" (POV).

Janet Carter states that "men who as children witnessed their parents' domestic violence were twice as likely to abuse their own wives than sons of nonviolent parents" (POV).

Janet Carter states that "a significant portion of child abusers, domestic violence perpetrators, and violent juvenile offenders grew up being abused themselves and/or witnessing their parents' domestic violence" (POV).

Janet Carter states that "Many of the risk factors that are highly associated with child maltreatment are the same factors that put women at risk for domestic violence and children at risk for juvenile violence" (POV).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):

Janet Carter uses statistics and actual evidence to analyze the effects that child abuse has on the behavior of an individual later on. Her information has exact numbers and statistics of children that are abused and it provides support to the theory that child abuse does lead to crime. She describes the effects of child maltreatment and then lists ways to prevent it.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?

The author is Janet Carter. The site exists to inform and help prevent child abuse. The site is funded by a group that works toward promoting the safety of battered women and children exposed to domestic violence.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?

The site exists only to inform on the effects of child abuse.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

There is no bias in Janet Carter writing.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

 Janet Carter provides a list of references at the end of her article. This adds to her credibilty.


Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?


I plan to use this source to provide information for my project and allow me to prove my ideas and opinions on my topic.