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Clove is a young woman with a seemingly good life. She has an adoring husband, two healthy, happy children and a comfortable home in Portland, a pleasant US city. She is a perfectionist with an obsession with clean eating and super-health who has spent years building such “perfection”.

Exclusive: ‘Controlling’ Carl Cooper had been implicated in the stabbings of two other women before he killed mother of four Fiona Holm – whose body has never been found

Domestic abuse survivors warn that – inside the secretive family courts – they are being ‘retraumatised’ by the legal system, and say judges are the worst offenders. Athena Stavrou reports

In today’s newsletter: The number of cases in which a man has been charged for killing a woman has reached 50 in the UK this year. Alexandra Topping explains why the Guardian is focusing on their stories

While the occasional inconsiderate behavior is tolerable in a relationship, it becomes unacceptable when the other person is endangered. (Trigger warning: domestic abuse and forced intimacy) The post Woman Is Planning To Run From Her Husband Immediately After Giving Birth As He Showed His Real Face first appeared on Bored…

Exclusive: Data showing thousands of babies affected by domestic abuse is ‘tip of the iceberg’, experts warn

Sexist crimes are on the rise and perpetrators are getting younger

A SUSPENDED Labour MP has claimed that party whips threatened to withdraw her “domestic abuse support” if she voted in favour of lifting the…

The National Police Chiefs’ Council has declared violence against women a national emergency in England and Wales. The first national police analysis of the scale of the problem estimated 2 million women to be victims of offences including stalking, harassment, sexual assault and domestic abuse.