October is federally recognized in the United States as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. On average, nearly 20 people are abused by an intimate partner every minute in the United States. One in ...

Domestic violence can take many forms—physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape, emotional abuse, intimidation, economic deprivation, threats of violence. Any situation in which one partner wields power over ...

I practiced family law for 10 years, some 20 years ago now, taking on several domestic violence cases. The police would be called to a house because a man had physically beaten a woman. By the time ...