Stanford Daily: Confidential women’s support group tackles abuse in affluent areas
“This is one of society’s best-kept dirty secrets — that abuse happens even in affluent areas,” Ruth Darlene said.
In 2011, Darlene was researching eating disorders of young women at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. But in the process of meeting with health professionals and young people to develop her curriculum for Bay Area high schools on eating disorders, Darlene began to see a recurring problem in the homes of Silicon Valley: abuse. When women Darlene personally knew identified abuse in their own relationships, she thought it was time to make a change.