Most Murders Of American Women Involve Domestic Violence

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Women are at greatest risk of being killed by their partners; not strangers. 
Most murders of American women involve domestic violence, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.

The CDC analyzed data from 18 states, finding 10,018 female homicides between 2003 and 2014. Over half ― 55 percent ― of cases where circumstances were known involved domestic violence. In 93 percent of those cases, victims were killed by current or former intimate partners: boyfriends, husbands, and lovers. The other 7 percent of victims were female friends, family members, first responders and bystanders who were killed during a domestic incident.

While the facts seem shocking at face value, they’re not surprising or new.

It is already well-established that women in the U.S. are far more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than by any other group of people. As HuffPost previously reported: It’s not strangers, friends or acquaintances who pose the biggest threat to women’s lives. It’s the men they date and marry. 

Around three women a day are murdered by an intimate partner, and in many cases, children and others are also killed. The majority of mass shootings ― defined as four or more people fatally shot, not including the perpetrator ― involve domestic violence.



More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/most-murders-of-american-women-involve-domestic-violence_us_5971fcf6e4b09e5f6cceba87?1e8&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Trump on domestic violence:

Donald Trump Plans to Cut Money That Helps Domestic Violence Survivors


http://www.teenvogue.com/story/violence-against-women-act-donald-trump

National Organization for Women Rips Trump on Domestic Violence Funding in Manhattan

http://observer.com/2017/03/national-organization-for-women-donald-trump-violence-against-women-act-rape/

Trump Is Triggering Domestic Violence Survivors With Textbook Abusive Behavior

It’s been seven years since Lisette Johnson’s abusive husband shot her and then turned the gun on himself, but nowadays, whenever she turns on the TV, she is confronted with a man who sounds just like him.

He lies. He bullies. He threatens. He calls women names. And he’s the Republican nominee for president.

“Substitute my husband’s face and body and you have the exact same person,” she said. “It makes me relive the crazy final days before my shooting when it was so confusing why he behaved the way he did.”

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While domestic abuse is often characterized as acts of physical violence, it’s more accurate to understand it as a cluster of specific behavioral tactics that abusers employ to control, intimidate and coerce victims. 

His behavior is almost exact to my abusive exes. It’s terrifying. I can’t even watch him.
Angel Marie Russell

More:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-is-triggering-domestic-violence-survivors-with-textbook-abusive-behavior_us_57ed0bafe4b082aad9b959fa

The abuser of women and chief is taking it one step further, he will now defund their support.

[guillaumeb]

1. Trump's behavior and comments serve to normalize this violence.

Recommended.

[NCTraveler]

2. This is truly sickening.

Trump is a horrible human being. As are far too many "intimate partners".

[sheshe2]

4. Up to 3 women a day. nt

[brer cat]

3. To trump, that is the way it should be.

Women only exist to cater to his whims. Step out of line and he is "justified" in being abusive. FDT

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5. To tRump and sadly many abusers.

Step out of line, boom.

Up to 3 women a day, Brer and that is just in the US.