Memorial Regional Health: Stopping domestic violence before it starts - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
(WorldNews Health)

Nearly half of all domestic violence incidents go unreported to the police, making intimate partner violence an often silent problem within households and communities. The National Domestic Violence Hotline reports nearly half of all women and men in the United States have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime, and one in four women and one in seven men have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner. Domestic violence isn`t a crime that affects only women. In fact, it can affect people of all ages, genders, races, and sexual orientations. `Domestic violence and abuse stem from a desire to gain and maintain power and control...