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How can domestic violence be explained
Title: How can domestic violence be explained
Category: Literature / English
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How can domestic violence be explained
Introduction
Domestic violence against women is a serious and widespread problem that is just not confined to the UK as Heise et al (1994) indicates that between 20 to 50 per cent of women in most countries experience spousal abuse at least once in their lives. During 1995 almost one third of 4,967 women murdered in the United States were killed by their boyfriend or husbands. Nor does domestic violence stop at mere physical abuse, but can include sexual, verbal, …showed first 75 words of 2837 total…
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