by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

When a domestic abuse survivor leaves a battering relationship and moves out, or speaks out, is she safe? Not necessarily so. Statistics show she is more often at greater risk after she leaves.

Far too often we hear about battered women falling through the cracks of the system on their way out of an abusive relationship. Many losing their civil liberties, their parental rights and/or their sanity in route to safety. Or, as those who live this know, as a price for peace.

Why these injustices to battered women?

For full article Domestic Abuse Divorce: Legal Psychiatric Rape

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