In the United States each year, an estimated four out of one thousand females older than twelve are victims of non-fatal domestic violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

President Richard Nixon used to say that the first civil right of every American "is the right to be free from domestic violence."

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Later she helped gain passage of the first law against domestic violence in the state of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Still,the National Network to End Domestic Violence says programs across the country served more than sixty thousand victims on any average day last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Physical abuse is always a crime, but domestic violence laws differ from state to state.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The Justice Department says domestic violence can be defined as a pattern of abusive behavior used by one partner in any relationship to control another partner.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Women are more likely to experience domestic violence, but men are also victims.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Richard Gelles at the University of Pennsylvania studies domestic violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

"Domestic violence" really meant crimes between strangers.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

And these include domestic violence, dowry murders,coerced abortions, honor crimes and the killing of infants simply because they are born female.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

one in four women becoming victims of domestic violence;

VOA: standard.2010.03.08