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In this article, sibling violence and the silence surrounding it is explicated through professional literature and research findings, exemplars from clinical practice, and statistics. Theoretical positions and discourse analysis have been used to help explain how regular broken bones, bruises, lacerations, and verbal humiliation can be minimized as normal sibling rivalry or roughhousing, which does not cause serious consequences. Nursing should be on the front lines of ending practices of violence. Recognizing sibling violence as such is part of this work and is a social justice issue.

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This article reports on a study that followed up on a group of women who attended gender-specific treatment for alcohol or other drug dependency at one-year posttreatment. The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) was used to measure change from entry into treatment to follow-up at one year. In addition, satisfaction with treatment and satisfaction with life were measured at the follow-up.