#domestic violence – @lilietsblog on Tumblr

When no-fault divorce was legalized in the 70′s, the states that legalized it saw a decrease of 8 to 16 percent in married women committing suicide and a 30 percent decline in domestic violence.

(from @aisandetsarepeopletoo)

aprillikesthings

this is why worshipping the so-called “traditional family” is a load of fucking bullshit

vangoghsdaughter

I think a lot of people really don’t realize that the current divorce rate has nothing to do with degrading morals and is literally just that it’s both legal and more socially acceptable now than it used to be. The issues leading to divorce have always been there.

Free version of the article here.

bartfargo

New York legalized no-fault divorce in the 1930s, after finding out that only allowing divorce on the grounds of adultery created a mini-industry of women pretending to be caught having affairs with married men.

#reblog #divorce #domestic violence #statistics #oh gee who could have known

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fandomsandfeminism

ubuntuliberation-blog

“The average prison sentence for men who kill their intimate partners is 2 to 6 years. Women who kill their partners are sentenced, on average, 15 to 17 years. A pair of Maryland cases vividly illustrates this inequality in sentencing. In one case, a judge in Baltimore County, Maryland sentenced Kenneth Peacock to 18 months for killing his unfaithful wife. The very next day, another judge in the same county sentenced Patricia Ann Hawkins to three years in prison for killing her abusive husband. Significantly, the prosecutor in the Peacock case requested a sentence twice as long as the one imposed, while the prosecutor in the Hawkins case requested one-third of the sentence imposed.” “As many as 90% of the women in prison today [2008] for killing men had been battered by those men.” ~ The Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project