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The Garden of Roses: Stories of Abuse and Healing

Virginia Jones

Background Information: Louis Bauschard: A Life Dedicated to Breaking the Cycle of Abuse

Louise Baushcard started her adult life as a stay at home mother before going back to school during the flowering of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 70s. She studied Social Work with an emphasis on Women’s Studies.

Her studies and her mentors inspired her to open a Women’s Self Help Center in St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1976, to bring women together and empower them to create positive changes in their lives — a noble goal that would soon be subsumed by specific problems of an overwhelming nature. Within a short time, phone calls came in to the Center seeking help for physical abuse and sexual abuse, and the mission of the center transformed to that of a hotline for domestic…