People abused by intimate partners regularly cite fear for their pet’s safety as a primary reason they do not leave an abusive situation. Sjale/ Illustration:...
Domestic violence is experienced unevenly across the U.S.
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Trauma and social isolation may play a role
by Laura Voith, Case Western Reserve University
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National data, endorsed by federal law, shows that when women in custody battles report abuse, courts too often follow a controversial...
by April M. Zeoli, University of Michigan and Shannon Frattaroli, Johns Hopkins University
For a large part of the history of the United States, domestic...
Women’s reports of domestic violence are widely rejected by family courts.
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by Joan Meier, George Washington University
The #MeToo movement may have shifted...
Intimate partner violence (IPV)—maybe a loved one experienced it. Your best friend. Your neighbor. Maybe you’ve lived with it. According to this distressing statistic,...
