March 26, 2026
Volume 56 - No. 13
SPOUSAL ABUSE SETTING RECORDS
ACROSS U.S. & STILL RISING! By Friedrich Gomez READER PRECAUTION. Due to the nature and content of this exclusive report to THE PAPER, reader discretion is advised. U.S. SPOUSAL & INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV) IS ACCELERATING IN RECORD LEVELS ACROSS THE U.S. Every minute, 24 people are victims of domestic violence somewhere
within the United States. Every day, three women are killed by an intimate partner (husband, exhusband, or boyfriend) in the U.S. Women in the U.S. are predominantly killed by men they know, and largely by current or former intimate partners. Of all female homicides in 2018 in which the victim-to-offender relationship could be identified: 92% of female victims were killed by a man they knew, and 63% were
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killed by current husbands, boyfriends, or ex-husbands. MALE TO FEMALE VS. FEMALE TO MALE DOMESTIC SPOUSAL ABUSE. Every year in the United States, more than 10 million men and women become victims of domestic violence, with far more women than ever before -- tragically losing their precious lives to intimate partner violence!
The link between gender and violence in the U.S. becomes even more apparent when looking at the demographics of male homicides: Men are significantly more likely to be killed by a (stranger) than by women; strangers kill 29% of male homicides victims. And while it is true that some men are killed by their female partners, intimate partner violence accounts for only about 5% of male homicides – and too often, these occur
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