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Acknowledgments
There are many individuals who have contributed to the success of this work, and I would like to take the time here to acknowledge their efforts. First, my sincerest thanks to my mentor, Dr. Donald (Chip) Hastings, for writing the foreword, and to my mother and friend, Mary Zilney, for writing the preface. You have both provided excellent insight into the issue of family violence. This project would have been difficult to accomplish without a generous dissertation grant from the William & Charlotte Parks Foundation, which provides invaluable support to many in the animal welfare community. The Foundation seeks to improve the status of nonhumans worldwide through studies of science and philosophy of animal rights and animal welfare, and seeks to reduce the suffering and harm that humans inflict on nonhumans. The Foundation's grant contributed to this study, which I hope may one day assist in changing the way humans view the abuse and mistreatment of other species.
This project began as part of my dissertation research, and thus there are many individuals at the University of Tennessee—where I completed my doctoral degree— that deserve my sincere thanks: Linda Daugherty of the Social Science Research Institute for her skill and speed in creating the CATI version of the survey instrument; all those individuals who assisted in the focus group of the survey or provided statistical advice; the many graduate students who conducted the survey calling for this project, specifically