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I read a frightening statistic recently. In the UK women who are victims of domestic violence at the hands of their partners, suffer an average of 39 attacks before they report.
When i was a literacy tutor several of my female colleagues had suffered or were suffering violence in their homes. One of them, my manager, was a very strong and independant woman. You'd never have dreamed to meet her, that she had suffered 10 years of extreme violence at the hands of her previous husband. Another, younger woman was locked into a relationship with a very violent boyfriend, whom she would occassionally leave but to whom she invariably returned.
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