One in 20 women reported intimate partner violence (IPV) while pregnant, according to a new report released on Dec. 5 by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). A study conducted from 2016 to 2022 found ...

Intimate partner violence is violence committed by one of the people in an intimate relationship against the other. Most people naturally think that it is primarily the victims of intimate partner ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lisa Fontes, an expert in coercive control and sexual violence, about Gisèle Pelicot's case and the effects of chemical submission.

One in every 50 men in California has been violent against an intimate partner in the past year. Just under two percent of California men—the equivalent of some 280,000 individuals—self-reported ...

More than one in three men in Australia reported using violence with an intimate partner in a first of its kind study which shows gender-based abuse is rising, despite years of national attention on ...

One in five women who become homeless in California flee their homes to escape violence and escalating abuse by an intimate partner, a new analysis of a statewide survey has reported. The study by the ...

Domestic violence is a global phenomenon. We study the interplay of determinants of a woman’s risk of facing intimate partner violence (IPV) for the case of India—using information from up to 235 ...

Despite national guidelines recommending routine screening for anxiety and intimate partner violence in women and adolescent ...

Kendra Nixon receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and research support from community partner, the Family Violence Prevention Program (Government of Manitoba).

In 2024, 38 Australian women were murdered by a partner or ex-partner. Thankfully, new data show the number of women killed by intimate partners has reduced to 32 over the most recent reporting period ...