*Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence, Murder* Domestic violence has been on a steady decline in the U.S. for the past 20 years. Since the landmark Violence Against Women Act was passed in 1994, annual rates of domestic violence have plummeted by 64 percent. But the U.S. still has the highest rate of domestic violence homicide of any industrialized country. Each day on average, three women are murdered by intimate partners — husbands and ex-husbands, boyfriends and estranged lovers. Compared to men, women are far more often murdered by someone they know. In 2010, 39 percent of U.S. female homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner. Just three percent of men suffered the same fate. ~LA huffingtonpost/2014/06/16/domestic-violence_n_5474177.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 03:39:35 +0000
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