Sentences with phrase «former victim of domestic violence»

When children become alienated from a mother who is a former victim of domestic violence, they call this domestic violence by proxy.

These protections prohibit insurers from taking certain actions against individuals based solely on their status as a current or former victim of domestic violence.

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A former counselor for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, she is a strong advocate for cultivating healthy and fulfilling relationships and sexuality at every age.

First under former District Attorney Liz Holtzman, then with Joe Hynes, she worked in the Special Victims Unit on some of the most horrific cases including child abuse and domestic violence.

Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun - control - advocacy group, analyzed FBI data on mass shootings from 2009 to 2016 and found that in 54 percent of cases, the victims included the shooter's current or former spouse or intimate partner, or another family member — and 16 percent of attackers between 2009 and 2015 had previously been charged with domestic violence.

Meanwhile, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the house of representatives and a former domestic violence victim Linda Burney lashed out at the head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine for claiming in an Opinion Piece for The Australian (paywalled) that the Indigenous community ignores domestic violence.