“We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.” IfsThinkingBelieveKindChildrenReasonEasyViolenceAbuseVictimPartnersAll KindsDomestic ViolenceStraightforwardAbusiveDomestic Abuse Author:Kate Thornton
“I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.” PeopleWantRealizingHappenedAbuseDomestic Abuse Author:Kato Kaelin
“Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.” WantLongInspirationHappensLastsMotivationTermViolenceAbuseIntimateLong TermDomestic AbuseLong Term RelationshipLast Place Author:Leslie Morgan Steiner
“If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.” IfsYearsHumansFormSexBornLosesMillionsCrimeHonorFemaleAbuseAddGenocideHolocaustDomestic AbuseTraffickingMutilationInfanticide Author:Gloria Steinem