Violence Against Women in the United States and World: Statistics

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Violence Against Women in the United States: Statistics
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Despite the fact that advocacy groups like NOW have worked for over three decades to halt the epidemic of gender-based violence and sexual assault, the numbers are still shocking. It is time to renew our national pledge, from the President and Congress on down to City Councils all across the nation to END violence against women and men, girls and boys. This effort must also be carried on in workplaces, schools, churches, locker rooms, the military, and in courtrooms, law enforcement, entertainment and the media. NOW pledges to continue our work to end this violence and we hope you will join us in our work.
MURDER
In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner.1 That’s an average of three women every day. Of all the women murdered in the U.S., about one-third were killed by an intimate partner.2

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Intimate Partner Violence or Battering)
Domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner.3 According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, women experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults and rapes every year.4 Less than 20 percent of battered women sought medical treatment following an injury.5

SEXUAL VIOLENCE
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That’s more than 600 women every day.6 Other estimates, such as those generated by the FBI, are much lower
because they rely on data from law enforcement agencies. A significant number of crimes are never even reported for reasons that include the victim’s feeling that nothing can/will be done and the personal nature of the incident.7

THE TARGETS
Young women, low-income women and some minorities are disproportionately victims of domestic violence and rape. Women ages 20-24 are at greatest risk of nonfatal domestic violence8, and women age 24 and under suffer from the highest rates of rape.9 The Justice Department estimates that one in five women will experience rape or attempted rape during their college years, and that less than five percent of these rapes will be reported.10 Income is also a factor: the poorer the household, the higher the rate of domestic violence — with women in the lowest income category experiencing more than six times the rate of nonfatal intimate partner violence as compared to women in the highest income category.11 When we consider race, we see that African-American women face higher rates of domestic violence than white women, and American-Indian women are victimized at a rate more than double that of women of other races.12

IMPACT ON CHILDREN
According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, “growing up in a violent home may be a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child’s life, growth and development. . . . children who have been exposed to family violence suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as bed-wetting or nightmares, and were at greater risk than their peers of having allergies, asthma, gastrointestinal problems, headaches and flu.” In addition, women who experience physcial abuse as children are at a greater risk of victimization as adults, and men have a far greater (more than double) likelihood of perpetrating abuse. 13

IMPACT ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that the cost of domestic violence in 2003 was more than over $8.3 billion. This cost includes medical care, mental health services, and lost productivity. 14

LEGISLATION
In 1994, the National Organization for Women, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now called Legal Momentum), the Feminist Majority and other organizations finally secured passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which provided a record-breaking $1.6 billion to address issues of violence against women.15 However it took nearly an additional year to force the Newt Gingrich-led Congress to release the funding. An analysis estimated that in the first six years after VAWA was passed, nearly $14.8 billion was saved in net averted social costs.16 VAWA was reauthorized in 2005, with nearly $4 billion in funding over five years.17

VIOLENCE BETWEEN SAME-SEX COUPLES
According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, “domestic violence affecting LGBT individuals continues to be grossly underreported . . . there is a lack of awareness and denial about the existence of this type of violence and its impact, both by LGBT people and non-LGBT people alike.”18

Myths regarding gender roles perpetuate the silence surrounding these abusive relationships; for example, the belief that there aren’t abusive lesbian relationships because women don’t abuse each other. Shelters are often unequipped to handle the needs of lesbians (as a women-only shelter isn’t much defense against a female abuser), and transgender individuals. Statistics regarding domestic violence against LGBT people are unavailable at the national level, but as regional studies demonstrate, domestic violence is as much as a problem within LGBT communities as it is among heterosexual ones.19

I am a survivor of all forms of abuse towards a woman. I have been there and back. I just feel this needs to be said. See article for more stats.
 

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  • Adult women account for nearly half (49 per cent) of all human trafficking victims detected globally. Women and girls together account for 72 per cent, with girls representing more than three out of every four child trafficking victims. More than four out of every five trafficked women and nearly three out of every four trafficked girls are trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation [4].
  • It is estimated that there are 650 million women and girls in the world today who were married before age 18. During the past decade, the global rate of child marriage has declined. South Asia had the largest decline during this time, from 49 per cent to 30 per cent. Still, 12 million girls under 18 are married each year and in sub-Saharan Africa—where this harmful practice is most common—almost four out of 10 young women were married before their 18th birthday. Child marriage often results in early pregnancy and social isolation, interrupts schooling, limits the girl’s opportunities and increases her risk of experiencing domestic violence [5].
  • At least 200 million women and girls aged 15-49 have undergone female ******* mutilation in the 30 countries with representative data on prevalence. In most of these countries, the majority of girls were cut before age five. More than 20 million women and girls in just seven countries (Egypt, Sudan, Guinea, Djibouti, Kenya, Yemen and Nigeria) have undergone female ******* mutilation by a health care provider.With population movement, female ******* mutilation is becoming a practice with global dimensions, in particular among migrant and refugee women and girls [6].
  • Approximately 15 million adolescent girls (aged 15 to 19) worldwide have experienced forced sex (forced sexual intercourse or other sexual acts) at some point in their life. In the vast majority of countries, adolescent girls are most at risk of forced sex by a current/former husband, partner or boyfriend. Based on data from 30 countries, only one per cent ever sought professional help [7].
  • Globally, one out of three students (aged 11 and 13 to 15 years) have been bullied by their peers at school at least on one day in the past month, with girls and boys equally likely to experience bullying. However, boys are more likely to experience physical bullying than girls, and girls are more likely to experience psychological bullying, particularly being ignored or left out or subject to nasty rumours. Girls also report being made fun of because of how their face or body looks more frequently than boys. School-related gender-based violence is a major obstacle to universal schooling and the right to education for girls [8].
  • Twenty-three per cent of female undergraduate university students reported having experienced sexual assault or sexual misconduct in a survey across 27 universities in the United States in 2015. Rates of reporting to campus officials, law enforcement or others ranged from five to 28 per cent, depending on the specific type of behavior [9].
  • One in 10 women in the European Union report having experienced cyber-harassment since the age of 15 (including having received unwanted, offensive sexually explicit emails or SMS messages, or offensive, inappropriate advances on social networking sites). The risk is highest among young women between 18 and 29 years of age [10].
  • In a multi-country study from the Middle East and North Africa, between 40 and 60 per cent of women said they had ever experienced street-based sexual harassment (mainly sexual comments, stalking/following, or staring/ogling), and 31 per cent to 64 per cent of men said they had ever carried out such acts. Younger men, men with more education, and men who experienced violence as children were more likely to engage in street sexual harassment [11].
  • Results from a national Australian survey show that almost two out of five women (39 per cent) aged 15 and older who have been in the workforce in the last five years have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace during that period, compared to one out of four (26 per cent) of their male counterparts. Regarding most common perpetrators, in almost four out of five cases (79 per cent) one or more of the perpetrators were male [12].
  • Eighty-two per cent of women parliamentarians who participated in a study conducted by the Inter-parliamentary Union in 39 countries across five regions reported having experienced some form of psychological violence (remarks, gestures and images of a sexist or humiliating sexual nature made against them or threats and/or mobbing) while serving their terms. They cited social media as the main channel through which such psychological violence is perpetrated; nearly half of those surveyed (44 per cent) reported having received death, rape, assault or abduction threats towards them or their families. Sixty-five per cent had been subjected to sexist remarks, primarily by male colleagues in parliament and from opposing parties as well as their own [13].
Measures to address violence
  • In the majority of countries with available data, less than 40 per cent of the women who experience violence seek help of any sort. Among women who do, most look to family and friends and very few look to formal institutions and mechanisms, such as police and health services. Less than 10 per cent of those women seeking help for experience of violence sought help by appealing to the police [14].
  • At least 144 countries have passed laws on domestic violence, and 154 have laws on sexual harassment. However, even when laws exist, this does not mean they are always compliant with international standards and recommendations or implemented [15].
  • Availability of data on violence against women has increased significantly in recent years. Comparable national prevalence data on intimate partner violence for the period 2005-2017 are available for 106 countries [16].
 
Leaving no one behind
  • The first large-scale research study of violence against women and girls in several areas of South Sudan that have known war and conflict for many years, showed that 33 per cent experienced sexual violence (including rape, attempted rape or any other unwanted sexual acts) by a non-partner (can include police officers or other armed actors, strangers or known persons). Seventy per cent or more of non-partner sexual assaults occurred during a direct experience of conflict (e.g. displacement, abduction or an attack on a survivor’s village). Women who had directly experienced a conflict event (attack, injury, etc.) reported increased brutality and frequency [17].
  • In 2014, 23 per cent of non-heterosexual women (those who identified their sexual orientation as lesbian, bisexual or other) interviewed in the European Union indicated having experienced physical and/or sexual violence by both male and female non-partner perpetrators, compared with five per cent of heterosexual women [18].
  • In a national university student survey in Australia, 72 per cent of trans and gender diverse students (self-identifying their gender as ‘indeterminate or unspecified’, ‘transgender’, or ‘other’) reported having been sexually harassed at least once during 2016, in contrast to 63 per cent of female students, and 35 per cent of male students [19].
  • Data from female participants of prevention interventions in six low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa show that women with disabilities are two to four times more likely to experience partner violence than those without disabilities. Furthermore, the risk of experiencing all forms of partner violence and non-partner sexual violence increases with the severity of impairment. Qualitative data shows that disability-related stigma and discrimination, compounds women’s vulnerability to violence and hinders their ability to seek help [20].
  • In a survey of 3,706 primary schoolchildren from Uganda, 24 per cent of 11 to 14-year-old girls with disabilities reported sexual violence at school, compared to 12 per cent of non-disabled girls [21].
  • In the 2017 National Youth Risk Behaviour survey in the US, nearly more than 9 per cent of high school girls who dated or went out with someone during the 12 months preceding the survey reported being physically hurt on purpose by someone they were dating or going out with during that period compared to nearly 7 per cent of high school boys; and almost 11 per cent reported having been forced to do sexual things they did not want to by someone they were dating or going out with compared to almost 3 per cent of high school boys [22].
  • In Australia, the prevalence of workplace sexual harassment in the past five years was substantially higher among people who identified as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (53 per cent) compared with those who did not (32 per cent). There were no significant gender differences with 50 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and 55 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women having experienced it in the last five years [
 

Facts and figures: Ending violence against women
Various forms of violence
  • It is estimated that 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner (not including sexual harassment) at some point in their lives. However, some national studies show that up to 70 per cent of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. Evidence shows that women who have experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence report higher rates of depression, having an abortion and acquiring HIV, compared to women who have not [1].
  • Similar to data from other regions, in all four countries of a multi-country study from the Middle East and North Africa, men who witnessed their fathers using violence against their mothers, and men who experienced some form of violence at home as children, were significantly more likely to report perpetrating intimate partner violence in their adult relationships. For example, in Lebanon the likelihood of perpetrating physical violence was more than three times higher among men who had witnessed their fathers beating their mothers during childhood than those who did not [2].
  • It is estimated that of the 87,000 women who were intentionally killed in 2017 globally, more than half (50,000- 58 per cent) were killed by intimate partners or family members, meaning that 137 women across the world are killed by a member of their own family every day. More than a third (30,000) of the women intentionally killed in 2017 were killed by their current or former intimate partner [3].
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures
 
Violence Against Women Increasing During Pandemic
By Natalie Seo
August 22, 2020 07:28 PM

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By Natalie Seo
August 22, 2020 07:28 PM

FILE - Amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19, a woman has her temperature checked in Arlington, Texas, June 1, 2020.
“He’s in the next room — if he hears me, I’ll have to hang up.”

That call to the Family Place, an organization in Dallas, Texas, focused on stopping family violence, reflects the reality of many women worldwide who are trapped in close quarters with their abusers during the pandemic.
For some, the COVID-related stress of lockdowns, job losses and other limitations is worsening an already abusive situation. For others, the abuse is new, the result of frustrations and fears.

As the coronavirus spread from its point of origin in Wuhan, China, late in 2019, the United Nations in April issued a warning of a shadow pandemic, an increase in domestic violence against women.
The behavior isn’t restricted to physical, sexual or psychological abuse and can include tactics such as forced child marriage. Worldwide, women are the most likely to be victims in part because they are less educated and less able to exert control over their own lives than men.
“As more countries report infection and lockdown, more domestic violence help lines and shelters across the world are reporting rising calls for help,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of U.N. Women, said on April 6.

And as COVID-19 persists, so has the shadow pandemic.
“It's stressful for anybody. But when you add financial problems and you have an abusive partner who is also unemployed — it's a bad recipe,” said Paige Flink, executive director of the Family Place.

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By Natalie Seo
August 22, 2020 07:28 PM


FILE - Amid concerns about the spread of COVID-19, a woman has her temperature checked in Arlington, Texas, June 1, 2020.
“He’s in the next room — if he hears me, I’ll have to hang up.”
That call to the Family Place, an organization in Dallas, Texas, focused on stopping family violence, reflects the reality of many women worldwide who are trapped in close quarters with their abusers during the pandemic.
For some, the COVID-related stress of lockdowns, job losses and other limitations is worsening an already abusive situation. For others, the abuse is new, the result of frustrations and fears.
As the coronavirus spread from its point of origin in Wuhan, China, late in 2019, the United Nations in April issued a warning of a shadow pandemic, an increase in domestic violence against women.
The behavior isn’t restricted to physical, sexual or psychological abuse and can include tactics such as forced child marriage. Worldwide, women are the most likely to be victims in part because they are less educated and less able to exert control over their own lives than men.
“As more countries report infection and lockdown, more domestic violence help lines and shelters across the world are reporting rising calls for help,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of U.N. Women, said on April 6.

And as COVID-19 persists, so has the shadow pandemic.
“It's stressful for anybody. But when you add financial problems and you have an abusive partner who is also unemployed — it's a bad recipe,” said Paige Flink, executive director of the Family Place.
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FILE - An advocate works in a cubicle at the National Domestic Violence Hotline center's facility in Austin, Texas, June 27, 2016.

Hotline calls
Overall, calls to domestic violence hotlines in Texas cities spiked in March as the state locked down, according to a roundup compiled by the magazine Texas Monthly, even as calls for help from rural areas fell, partly the result of a digital divide that leaves a third of the state’s residents without broadband at home. Or, as some authorities have suggested, the drop occurred because victims cannot evade their abusers during lockdown to reach out for help.

The daily lives of many women are tracked by their abusive partners, Flink said, with any unaccounted-for time often seen as a challenge to authority or proof of an affair. But the shortages and reduced services that are the pandemic’s hallmark in the U.S. offered some women in Texas a lifeline.
“Hours [spent] in line were natural, so some women would call us, literally from the Walmart parking lot,” said Flink, whose organization provides counseling, temporary housing and other services for women and children.

As of Saturday, Texas had reported a COVID-19 toll of more than 585,600 confirmed cases and more than 11,400 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
Across the globe, the shadow pandemic of domestic violence looms, with different countries responding in different ways, as glimpses of Russia, Mexico and Malawi suggest.


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Russia

Russia calls to hotlines spiked. The high commissioner for human rights, Tatyana Moskalkova, said the number of calls to domestic abuse hotlines jumped from just more than 6,000 in March to more than 13,000 in April.

The rapid increase came in a country where, in 2017, 36,000 women each day suffered from beatings by their husbands and partners, and the government and police regard domestic violence to be a “private matter.”

Despite the numbers provided by various women’s organizations and Moskalkova, the Ministry of Interior (MVD) reported that the number of domestic violence cases registered by authorities in April 2020 had decreased by 9% from a year earlier.

Janette Akhilgova, Russia and Caucasus consultant at Equality Now (EN), described the discrepancy as “very strange” because early lockdown measures left victims of domestic violence even more vulnerable.

“There were women who had intimate partners threatening them that they would call police [if they left] the house,” Akhilgova said.

The chairwoman of Russia’s Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, announced in April that the council would pause work on a controversial bill to counter domestic violence until after the pandemic.

“I don’t think there will be any surge in domestic violence,” she said, “because families, on the contrary, are going through this difficult period together."

As of Saturday, Russia had reported a COVID-19 toll of more than 949,000 confirmed cases and more than 16,260 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.

Mexico

In Mexico, the secretary of the interior and civil society organizations said that violence against women was increasing during lockdowns, although President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in May that 90% of calls made by women seeking help for domestic violence were false claims.

As part of its coronavirus-response emergency decree, the government defunded the Houses for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Women, or Casas de la Mujer Indígena o Afromexicana (CAMIs), which provided culturally sensitive sexual support for those embroiled in domestic violence, reproductive health care and psychosocial care.

“This is scary,” said Barbara Jiménez-Santiago, Americas regional coordinator at Equality Now.

Although the government restored half of the 2020 funding for CAMI after a public outcry, authorities have yet to guarantee any money for 2021. Jiménez-Santiago sees this reluctance as a violation of international and regional commitments.

“The commitments state very clearly they should have to provide the budget … to eradicate violence against women, to bring equality,” said Jiménez-Santiago.

She worries about the well-being of women post-lockdown, reciting statistics illuminating Mexico’s challenge: Almost 9 out of 10 women do not report gender violence, and in April, an average of 11 women were killed every 24 hours. In May, Mexico’s National Shelter Network reported an 80% increase in calls for help.

“If the women don't have safe spaces to go and to share and to break the silence of what they lived during the lockdown, it's going to be a terrible trauma,” said Jiménez-Santiago.

As of Saturday, Mexico had reported a COVID-19 toll of more than 549,700 confirmed cases and 59,610 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.

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Malawi

In Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, where 46% of girls are married before age 18 and 9% before age 15, the organization People Serving Girls at Risk (PSGR) discerned a spike in child marriages when lockdowns began in March.

PSGR director Caleb Ng’ombo attributed the increase to parents thinking that marrying off their daughters would relieve them of a burden during the pandemic.

“It is so horrifying,” Ng’ombo said. “It is so horrifying in the sense that the girls are being forced to get into marriage.”

The loss of income also has put women and girls at a greater risk of commercial sexual exploitation and pregnancy from transactional sex.

“People have to weigh their options,” Ng’ombo said. “[They think], ‘If I just stay at home and don’t go out to do anything, I’ll still be killed by hunger anyways … I still have to go and sell sex.’ ”

“This is where unscrupulous people are coming in to recruit children, to steal children, to abduct children, but especially girls,” said Ng’ombo, a crusader against child trafficking.

Despite “very cordial” help from government institutions and police in combating sexual exploitation during the pandemic, PSGR has laid off staffers because of a lack of funding.

“And this is at a critical time when we are needed the most by the girls, by the women,” Ng’ombo said. “Because time and time again, we keep getting distressing calls from women … and they’re looking for help.”

As of Saturday, Malawi had reported a COVID-19 toll of more than 5,300 confirmed cases and 166 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.

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Domestic violence, prostitution, dealing drugs, human trafficking have all been major issues the world over. Dealing with these issues requires lots of money and individuals that really care and are willing to change the normal. Gun violence is again on the rise. I was surprised to read that Russia is also experiencing high numbers in domestic violence.

The pandemic and the loss of police in some areas have only added to the problems. Without looking through my journal, I can recall attending 2 funerals of Troopers that were killed in the line of duty while on a call of domestic violence.

Rapes and sexual violence continue to be problematic. Rapes of children have escalated during the pandemic. We face many challenges to change these trends. When looking at crime stats, some of them show a decline over the last five years, but major crimes are on the rise.

I believe that once this pandemic has ceased to be in the everyday news, we will see a decline, but probably not enough to change major statistics. These problems/issues are not just going to go away or evaporate. We need to change people’s mentality and get back to treating one another with common respect. There is no reason why here in America, people shouldn’t be able to walk down the street without fear of being attacked.
 
May I relate a story to you? When my late husband was in the sheriff's dept in Nevada, He and his partner were called out for the 3rd time on a domestic call at the same home. This was before the Miranda rights.
A large,agressive man again was hiding a small, terribly beaten wife who refused to press charges, again.
My husband asked the man if they could speak to him privately in the back yard.
When they got there, the officers beat the crap out of him! Then they threatened him, "if this ever happened again".
Of course, they could never get away with that today!
 
I know a guy that got in an argument with his wife. she started it. she started punching him. all he did was grab her wrists to make her stop hitting him. when the cops got there, HE went to jail for touching her. :rolleyes:
 
@911
"I was surprised to read that Russia is also experiencing high numbers in domestic violence."

Russia has extremely high alcoholism rates. As Tommy Smothers once said "Too much wodka makes you womit" and causes a lot of violence too.
 
macgeek said:
I know a guy that got in an argument with his wife. she started it. she started punching him. all he did was grab her wrists to make her stop hitting him. when the cops got there, HE went to jail for touching her. :rolleyes:
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Same here while I was married. She got really angry when she was served divorce papers. Rather amusing since she's the one who cheated & caused the divorce. Luckily for both of us, I wasn't arrested. But a friend of mine wasn't so lucky.
He was married for 6 years & had 2 kids at the time - around 6-7 yrs old. They both were educated & had good jobs, nice house, etc.
He got into an argument with her, like most married couples. Later, she decided he didn't respect her. She called the police & when they got there, she showed them a bruise she got earlier that morning when she slipped & fell in the kitchen. Her husband was arrested & spent 6 days in jail before she admitted she made it up. Of course, she wasn't charged with anything; women never are in such situations.
He divorced her.
I don't want to think about what I'd do if a woman told a lie that caused me to spend ONE MINUTE in jail.
 
Yes there are cases when a man is incorrectly arrested or taken into jail. However there are also many cases where the man is not taken into custody and kills his partner or spouse sometime shortly thereafter.

What's clear is there needs to be some sort of solution in ambiguous or questionable cases that allow a man to not be arrested, yet protects a woman from the man. We have the technology to make that easier to achieve we just need to implement it and put it in place.
 
Gaer said:
May I relate a story to you? When my late husband was in the sheriff's dept in Nevada, He and his partner were called out for the 3rd time on a domestic call at the same home. This was before the Miranda rights.
A large,agressive man again was hiding a small, terribly beaten wife who refused to press charges, again.
My husband asked the man if they could speak to him privately in the back yard.
When they got there, the officers beat the crap out of him! Then they threatened him, "if this ever happened again".
Of course, they could never get away with that today!
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You are 100% correct.
 
asp3 said:
Yes there are cases when a man is incorrectly arrested or taken into jail. However there are also many cases where the man is not taken into custody and kills his partner or spouse sometime shortly thereafter.

What's clear is there needs to be some sort of solution in ambiguous or questionable cases that allow a man to not be arrested, yet protects a woman from the man. We have the technology to make that easier to achieve we just need to implement it and put it in place.
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What we were trained to do was after our arrival at the site, separate the man and woman and speak to them separately. Usually, we can get a read on who did what to who. If the situation seems to be uncontrollable, we will generally recommend that the man seek out a place away from his home to sleep for the night. If the situation developed early in the day, we will tell the man not to return before noon the next day. We will even offer them a ride to a friend’s or relative’s house or a hotel. When you say to them, “What’s it going to be a hotel or jail?” They will usually come to their senses. If an assault did occur, we need to find out who assaulted who.
 
I think women everywhere should be allowed one free class for self-defense. Many times running isn't an option but fighting back always will be.
 
One of our Granddaughters is a nurse at an area hospital, and she sometimes is called in at nighttime hours. Several weeks ago, one of her fellow nurses was accosted in the hospital parking lot at night....but, managed to escape back into the hospital. Since then, many of the nurses have begin carrying pepper spray, or mace, etc., when they are out at night.....and this is a fairly quiet medium size town in the Midwest. Our granddaughter, and some of her co workers are even thinking about carrying a small pistol.
 
MarciKS said:
I think women everywhere should be allowed one free class for self-defense. Many times running isn't an option but fighting back always will be.
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asp3 said:
Yes there are cases when a man is incorrectly arrested or taken into jail. However there are also many cases where the man is not taken into custody and kills his partner or spouse sometime shortly thereafter.

What's clear is there needs to be some sort of solution in ambiguous or questionable cases that allow a man to not be arrested, yet protects a woman from the man. We have the technology to make that easier to achieve we just need to implement it and put it in place.
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"However there are also many cases where the man is not taken into custody and kills his partner or spouse sometime shortly thereafter."
Yes, especially if he's a football star & the arriving (idiot) officers are football fans.
O.J. Simpson
 
Don M. said:
One of our Granddaughters is a nurse at an area hospital, and she sometimes is called in at nighttime hours. Several weeks ago, one of her fellow nurses was accosted in the hospital parking lot at night....but, managed to escape back into the hospital. Since then, many of the nurses have begin carrying pepper spray, or mace, etc., when they are out at night.....and this is a fairly quiet medium size town in the Midwest. Our granddaughter, and some of her co workers are even thinking about carrying a small pistol.
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They're allowed to carry weapons into work there? I know our facility has a no guns policy. Most hospitals don't allow conceal and carry do they?
 
While growing up, I had a friend whose father would hit his mom from time to time. I was probably only 12 or 13 and didn’t grasp the entirety of the situation, but one day my dad and I were working on painting the inside of our home when I brought this topic up. My dad was surprised that this man would do that, after all, he did serve on the school board.

My dad didn’t say too much, but a few weeks later, I saw my dad coming out of my friend’s house. We didn’t talk about it, so I asked my friend if he knew what my dad and his dad talked about. He said he didn’t know. But after that, my friend never told me again that his father hit his mom.
 
Besides physical violence which bad enough there is verbal 'violence' and abuse along with manipulation and harassment. This is where things probably escalate the verbal manipulation phase. A lot of spouses, partners etc probably have somekind of a drug/alcohol issue with somekind of control issues. Throw in ignorance, peers etc and unchecked/unchallenged behavior the abuse will become "normal". There's also peope that are dependent-literally money/shelter and co dependent emotional attachment.

The big thing is people should seek advice, help and exit the relationship. If 'abuse' comes with the package I'd throw it out.
 
Pepper said:
@911
"I was surprised to read that Russia is also experiencing high numbers in domestic violence."

Russia has extremely high alcoholism rates. As Tommy Smothers once said "Too much wodka makes you womit" and causes a lot of violence too.
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Russia's domestic violence laws are incredibly weak. So what we see in their numbers probably doesn't scratch the surface of what's really going on. :(
 

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