Pick a place where you know you can go right away if you feel like your safety is being threatened. It could be the home of a trusted family member or friend, or a local shelter for domestic violence ...

Victims of intimate partner violence with suicidal behavior have characteristic injury patterns on medical imaging, according to a new study presented at the annual meeting of the ...

One in 20 women reported intimate partner violence (IPV) while pregnant, according to a new report released on Dec. 5 by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). A study conducted from 2016 to 2022 found ...

Substance use is a well-established driver of intimate partner violence (IPV), with drug-related incidents posing persistent challenges for both public health and criminal justice systems. We examine ...

One in five women who become homeless in California flee their homes to escape violence and escalating abuse by an intimate partner, a new analysis of a statewide survey has reported. The study by the ...

We're beginning to build a better picture of just how many people are affected by intimate partner violence—a crisis that disproportionately impacts women and girls. But not everyone with insecure ...

Cori was desperate to leave her abusive husband, but the situation was complicated by her husband’s position as a police officer and her father-in-law’s role as the local sheriff in a small town where ...

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 ...

Kendra Nixon receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and research support from community partner, the Family Violence Prevention Program (Government of Manitoba).

The minister leading Ontario’s work on intimate partner violence says it would be “disingenuous” to declare it an epidemic and that doing so would oversimplify a complicated, long-term problem. For ...

Fifty years since the federal earned income tax credit went into effect and a team of researchers from UConn and City University of New York have identified an unintended benefit of the antipoverty ...