Domestic Abuse

One in four American women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. That's more women than are affected by breast cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer combined. Still, more than one-third of Americans have never discussed the issue.

This year, the theme of National Women’s History Month is women providing healing, promoting health. Sometimes this occurs within the context of helping survivors end abusive relationships and forge a new life. And that’s the subject of a play opening at The Naples Players on March 30th which WGCU Reporter Tom Hall calls the most consequential show to be produced anywhere in Southwest Florida this theater season.

Mildred Muhammed, ex-wife of the DC Sniper, will present a free talk on domestic violence Tuesday.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and a project at Florida Gulf Coast University is encouraging people to look at all kinds of abuse using the symbolism of clothes out on a line.

Florida’s Coalition Against Domestic Violence and its former CEO Tiffany Carr are now facing two state lawsuits in addition to investigations from the...

Amid probes into spending by the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the House is poised Wednesday to take up a bill that would give...

The group Gentle’men Against Domestic Violence has gotten men together in Naples over the past decade to raise money for The Shelter for Abused Women and…

We’ll meet two men involved with a program called Gentle’men Against Domestic Violence that is sponsored by the Shelter for Abused Women and Children in…

Rates of reported domestic violence in the U.S. have declined by nearly three-quarters over the last two decades, but physical and psychological domestic…

Florida is among the worst states for women living in poverty. A report out this month by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research ( IWPR ) and the...