Reply #227: First we must identify that there is a problem... [View All]

I think this article brings to light a very disturbing and deadly problem. To many of us posting here, it's about as revelatory as "water is wet", but to many who don't post here and to some who do, it is not "common knowledge". Perhaps if it were to enter the canon of "common knowledge", we could begin to focus on and address the motivations that surround such murders rather than, as I noted in my earlier post, trying to "fix" women who "get themselves" abused and/or murdered.

I think many of the links added after the OP do talk about the statistics, their availability and what they relate in regard to this issue. Some of the links also show how poorly this issue has been addressed.

It's too bad women's stories of the abuse they've suffered at the hands and fists of their loved(?!) ones over the decades haven't been given more credibility. Had they been, rather than being put aside in favor of research and statistics to prove the women weren't "making this up" or to "prove" it happens often enough to be of concern, perhaps there would have been fewer murders. There is and has been an "epidemic" of "men murdering their pregnant wives or girlfriends"; the only problem is, so few will see it as such unless the "numbers" can be confirmed. Better to question the statistics and the context in which they're gathered than address what women say.