Intimate partner violence, defined as abuse or aggression that occurs in an intimate relationship, affects millions of people ...

68 percent reported childhood emotional abuse, 38.5 percent childhood physical abuse and 7.3 percent childhood sexual abuse; 9 percent of men reported perpetrating physical violence, 46.5 percent ...

More than half of the women murdered worldwide last year were killed by intimate partners or family members, according to a recently-released study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The ...

Asthma is a common, serious and difficult-to-manage chronic health condition. In the U.S., 1 in 7 people are diagnosed with asthma, and that number is rising. Over the years, researchers have ...

Australians are familiar with the disturbing statistics of intimate partner homicide: one Australian woman is killed every 11 days, on average, by a current or former intimate partner. While these ...

Child sexual abuse cases involving female perpetrators are confronting and distressing. When these cases make the news, they often provoke shock and outrage. Fifty years since the federal earned ...

My mother died by suicide when I was just 4 years old; 40 years later, I discovered her diary. There I found deeply disturbing descriptions of physical intimidation and emotional abuse from my father.

A bill to allow women to find out from police if their partner has a history of violent behaviour, was tabled on Wednesday.