October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Across the world, people of all income levels, religions, and sexual orientation experience abuse from partners, children, and parents. And it can be hard ...
While the Government has committed to reducing violence against women and girls with its new strategy (published last month), domestic abuse remains at ‘epidemic levels’, with women continuing to be ...
The factors that cause or contribute to domestic violence are complex. It’s important to remember that the only behavior you’re responsible for is your own. A person who commits an act of violence or ...
About 14,000 people living in a town experienced domestic abuse last year, council figures revealed. Luton Borough Council ...
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Karen Schucan Bird receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council. It is likely that you know someone in a harmful or unhealthy relationship. Domestic abuse is common. For example, ...
Domestic violence killings are among the most preventable types of homicide. But in Wisconsin, where domestic violence deaths remain high, funding to help victims is vanishing. Last year, 85 people ...
One in four adults in England and Wales are likely to have experienced domestic abuse at some point since the age of 16 – a higher proportion than previously thought, new research suggests. The figure ...
The family justice system is systematically misrecognising intimate image abuse within coercively controlling relationships, ...