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domestic violence

Noun

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violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner or other members of a household

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The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it. It's when something is so common that its no longer news – car crashes, domestic violence – that we should worry. Bruce Schneier

Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC-which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries-has swallowed wholesale the lies and distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, man-hating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy ‘research'. Melanie Phillips

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists. Haruki Murakami

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. Salma Hayek

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. Lucille Roybal-Allard

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

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