Domestic violence may be a factor in up to 25% of suicide attempts in women. Of pregnant women who are battered, 20% attempt suicide. When inquiring about the reason for the suicide attempt, clarify responses such as "fight with my husband" as to presence or absence of physicality. Depress...
Domestic violence by a man against his wife was not widely considered grounds for divorce until the 20th century. And though new laws expanded the reasons a couple could divorce, they also retained the fundamental ideology of their religious predecessors that a couple could only split if one pers...
violence and dowry related crimes, in addition to controversies over the Shah Bano case and the Uniform Civil Code, highlighted the need for laws that specially addressed women’s issues.1Though the term ‘domestic violence’ did not exist in legal parlance till 2005, a step in its ...
Domestic violence occurs among people in same-sex relationships at similar rates to people in heterosexual relationships. However, many domestic violence programs are unable to work effectively with same-sex victims of domestic violence because they lack adequate training—thus, the state’s interest in...
For a striking nineteenth-century example of the impact of global conditions on domestic migration policy see Zolberg’s study of the hardening of state laws in the US in the face of mass Irish and other European immigration in the 1850s: Zolberg2003....
A 2006 BBC News report on October 11 stated that Ethiopian women were the most abused women in the world, with 60% reporting sexual violence and marital rape.In addition,100 countries had no domestic violence laws whatsoever. Emblematic of the sheer needless cruelty toward women, Ghanaian commu...
hundreds of businesses and universities have enacted laws that protect gay people from employment discrimination. More than a dozen cities (including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, and the District of Columbia) have introduced the status of "domestic partnership" which, although it ...
If the guardian who has committed domestic violence against the minor refuses to accept family education guidance, the guardian is to be punished with the confiscation of the security deposit. This will worsen the situation of families." His suggestion was adopted by the Standing Committee of the...
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian “collective memory” of communism reveals the emergence of a field
are different. Professor Sean Wilentz of Princeton also notes that Ford pardoned Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal alone; a pardon of Trump would “[halt] further investigation and possible prosecution concerning the serious violation ofseveralimportant federal laws arising from several distin...