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Article: Domestic violence courts.
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- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Domestic violence is recognized as a pervasive social problem in Canada. A 1994 Statistics Canada survey found that one in four Canadian women had been subjected to some sort of abuse during a relationship with a spouse or partner. A subsequent study found that a married woman is nine times more likely to be killed by her intimate partner than by a total stranger. The situation for Aboriginal women is even more dire. A 1989 study conducted by the Ontario Native Women's Association found that nine in ten Aboriginal women surveyed had been abused. Other studies confirm that men are victims of domestic violence as well. Domestic violence may take a number of forms of abusive ...