tely homicide ("Domestic Abuse," 2007). This shows how persistent abuse is in society.
Because abuse can be so pervasive, covering all aspects of a person's life, once it began to be studied and quantified, figures have shown how prevalent it is in society. According to Dryden-Edwards, in the United States, domestic abuse affects "2 million women and 800,000 men and resulting in homelessness of victims, billions of dollars in health-care costs, and lost work productivity" (2007, p. 6). Yet another study ups those figures, stating that there are "960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year" ("Children," 2007). In addition, at least a third of Americ
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