“The bottom line is this: "Married women are notably safer than their unmarried peers, and girls raised in a home with their married father are markedly less likely to be abused or assaulted than children living without their own father," they write. Of course, while playing the game of manipulating statistics, they pointedly ignore the fact that domestic violence rates have been falling at the same marriage rates are falling.” MenWomenMarriageViolenceAbuseDomestic ViolenceDomestic AbuseMarriage Rates Author:Greenhaven Press