Does Football Promote Abuse?

Opinions Vary on whether Mix of Beer and Super Bowl Promotes Domestic Violence For years experts have debated the merits of research linking the most watched television event “”the Super Bowl”” with an increase in domestic violence. Each year, between one...

Abusive Spouse Won’t Get Alimony

Courts Can Help You Avoid Paying an Ex-Spouse who Has History of Abuse More and more women are paying alimony because they make more than their ex-husbands during their marriages. While there isn’t much anyone can do about that, there is one exception to the...

Can You “Fix” Abuse?

Counseling for Abusive Spouse Is Possible. Here’s How Katherine van Wormer and her co-author, Albert R. Roberts, have written a book about men who kill their partners, “Death by Domestic Violence (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008).” They have also...

Domestic Violence Happens Every 15 Seconds

Is This Happening To You? Every 15 seconds a woman in the U.S. is a victim of domestic violence. Statistics show that 60 percent of men who abuse women also abuse children. Women abusing men is on the rise. There are three types of abuse: physical, sexual, and verbal...

Men as the Abuse Victims

Domestic Abuse: More Women Confess to Attacking Partners, According to UF Study Women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners, according to a University of Florida study that finds women have a new view of the dating scene....