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Not-So-Sweet Home: The Persistence of Domestic Violence

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The home is in many ways the basic unity of society, a bastion of shelter and family bonds. It is the means by which the social order is reproduced and the context in which children are brought into the world. Yet for millions of women, children, and men, all over the world, home is not a safe place.

According to the , each year an estimated 1.3 million women and more than 200,000 men in the U.S. are.

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