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Domestic Violence Is On The Rise Under Lockdown. Here’s How You Can Help Survivors
As the novel coronavirus has ravaged the world, and stay-at-home orders have been put in place in virtually every country across the globe, my thoughts have returned continually to those for whom home is not a safe place.It’s a stark statistic, but approximately 7.9 million women in the United States are raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by a current or former intimate partner each year.As we are collectively being asked to social-distance and stay at home, COVID-19 is confining many of these women in even closer quarters with their abusers, , without the lifeline that even the simplest of trips to the shops, or the respite that their or their partner’s regular working hours, might have provided.Getting help to them, and the