Financial Stress Contributes
February 24, 2021
While COVID-19-related lockdowns may have decreased the spread of a deadly virus, they appear to have created an ideal environment for increased domestic violence. Extra stress in the COVID-19 pandemic caused by income loss, and lack of ability to pay for housing and food has exacerbated the often silent epidemic of intimate partner violence, suggests a new University of California, Davis, study.
VIOLENCE IN THE PANDEMIC
Data collected in surveys of nearly 400 adults for 10 weeks beginning in April 2020 suggest that more services and communication are needed so that even front-line health and food bank workers, for example rather than only social workers, doctors and therapists can spot the signs and ask clients questions about potential intimate partner violence. They could then help lead victims to resources, said Clare Cannon, assistant professor of social and environmental justice in the Department of Human Ecology and the le
COVID-19 isolation linked to increased domestic violence, researchers suggest
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As the first American newspaper to reveal hidden truths regarding the events of September 11, 2001 not to mention carrying breaking updates over the past 12 years AMERICAN FREE PRESS founded what later became known as the 9-11 truth movement. This week we illustrate how that heinous false-flag attack still affects our world today.
By Victor Thorn
ARLINGTON, Va. Perched 15 floors atop Washington, D.C. inside the Sheraton Hotel, over 100 9-11 “truthers” gathered on September 13-15 to learn about the latest developments surrounding the 21st century’s greatest conspiracy. Not lost on any of these attendees was a supreme irony: directly following the supposed crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials immediately seized videotapes from the Sheraton’s CCTV cameras.
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