Domestic Abuse Has Been On The Rise In The Time Of Covid
While staying at home over the last many months has been helpful in preventing the spread of the pandemic, a pandemic of a different type has raged on. In some cases, quite literally.
For people trapped at home in an environment of domestic abuse, 2020 has created another level of hell.
Bristol University sociologist Marianne Hester studies abusive relationships. Sadly, domestic violence always goes up anyway during holidays or any occasion where families spend more time together. That includes Christmas or vacations, etc. So you can imagine how being "locked-down" for months and months would affect it even more.