October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Since I'm a woman, this interests me from a woman's perspective.
Some statistics:
Each year in the U.S. 4.8 million women suffer physical assaults and rapes from their partner, and 2.9 million men are victims of physical violence from their partners.
A study indicates that 75 percent of the women who abuse men are retaliating for an attack by their intimate partner.
At least one-third of abusers are thought to have some type of a mental...
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