Last month, That 70s Show actor Danny Masterson was found guilty of raping two women in the early 2000s. However, the jury could not reach a verdict on a third allegation of rape involving Masterson’s ...
A study of more than 60 countries shows those with faster declines in the social acceptability of intimate partner violence ...
Intimate partner violence is violence committed by one of the people in an intimate relationship against the other. Most people naturally think that it is primarily the victims of intimate partner ...
Intimate partner violence is a major public health concern. According to Statistics Canada, in 2018, 44 per cent of women experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime. Rates of ...
Australians are familiar with the disturbing statistics of intimate partner homicide: one Australian woman is killed every 11 days, on average, by a current or former intimate partner. While these ...
A study of men convicted of intimate partner violence against women found that those who reported childhood physical or psychological abuse tended to display greater physical aggression toward their ...
A number of factors can dissuade or prevent survivors from reporting domestic violence, so it’s difficult to understand just how common it is. Domestic violence is the broad term for behavior designed ...
Domestic violence can look like digital or online abuse, financial abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, and emotional abuse. There are many pervasive myths about domestic abuse. Many ...
Take a moment and let the title of this article sink in: “Partner violence is common.” For this article, the title is the main point. It is the crucible. So why did I choose to make the title the ...
October is Domestic Violence Month—and a good time to be reminded that women are not the only victims. Men are victims too. As a society, with gender stereotypes and a long history of male violence ...
Smadar Samson met a group of women who had become homeless after leaving abusive relationships, while she was doing volunteer work in homelessness outreach. Some had children in tow, others had ...