Domestic Violence and Divorce
Women may be at an increased risk of homelessness or be compelled to live with a former or current abuser in order to prevent homelessness.
Read more about this topic: Homeless Women In The United States
Famous quotes containing the words domestic, violence and/or divorce:
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)