“After suffering decades of abuse, Helen Naslund was sentenced for killing her husband on their Alberta farm.”
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She Never Hurt Her Kids. So Why Is a Mother Serving More Time Than the Man Who Abused Her Daughter?
Oklahoma incarcerates more women than almost any other state. Under its punishing, under-the-radar “failure to protect” law, mothers — even those who are victims of domestic violence — can be sent to prison because of their supposed failure to keep their children out of harm’s way. In this devastating read, Samantha Michaels tells the story […]
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The Billion Dollar Question
“Why can’t the military fix its violence against women problem?”
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How America’s Gun Laws Are Failing Domestic Violence Victims
“From 2017 through 2020, Reveal identified at least 110 intimate partners and others who were fatally shot by offenders using weapons they weren’t allowed to possess under federal and, in some cases, state law.”
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Police Are Giving Amazon Ring Cameras to Survivors of Domestic Violence. Is It Helping?
“Experts question whether these always-on surveillance devices, provided by police departments with close ties to Ring marketing representatives, are really the right tools to make survivors safer.”
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We Are the Ones Who Got Away
“The patriarch brings ‘domestic violence’ on vacation.”
Posted inCrime, Featured, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes
Bonded by Grief, Pain, and Loss
“Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?”
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She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids
How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.
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What Didn’t Kill Her
Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.
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When It’s Time to Tell
The silence that once protected one woman from memories of her abusive ex-boyfriend and further abuse was now the silence she needed to free herself from.