Today in people are evil: a North Carolina teen confessed to tossing his girlfriend off a bridge with cinder blocks attached to her feet. » 4/09/14 5:15pm 4/09/14 5:15pm

MSNBC's Tamron Hall hasn't spoken much about the murder of her sister who died as a result of domestic violence, but during a Television Critics Association panel yesterday morning, she opened up about the horrible incident, explaining how she wished she would have noticed the signs that her sister was in danger sooner … » 1/10/14 12:30pm 1/10/14 12:30pm

Well, here's a little sour seasoning for one inspirational tale of endurance. The Denver Post reports that Aron Ralston (the man who inspired 127 Hours) and his girlfriend were both arrested on charges of assault and "wrongs to minors" on Sunday. Their eight-week-old child was reportedly present at the time, though the… » 12/09/13 5:30pm 12/09/13 5:30pm

Aspire News is a new app out for iPhone and Android that's made for people in abusive relationships. It's an interesting idea, and one that might actually help a lot of people. » 11/21/13 10:00am 11/21/13 10:00am

In awful news out of Florida, a woman has been charged with rape after assaulting her partner with a 'marital aid,' according to police reports. » 11/09/13 2:31pm 11/09/13 2:31pm

George Zimmerman, the gun waving lunatic who killed BUT DID NOT MURDER unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, is in the middle of a messy divorce. The latest allegation brought by his estranged wife is that once when he was mad at her, he nailed a bullseye riddled with bullet holes to her parents' house. "Yep, sounds about… » 10/31/13 2:10pm 10/31/13 2:10pm

For twelve bucks, you can purchase "domestic violence" anise sage from an online gardening store whose owner thinks offensive always = hilaaaarious. » 9/06/13 10:25am 9/06/13 10:25am

Two seemingly unrelated stories in the New York Times about violence against women in two different European countries demonstrate that if you just listen to women, they'll tell you what they need to fix a problem. A while the answer is usually more help from the government, women usually point to different solutions… » 8/19/13 11:10am 8/19/13 11:10am

Navigating social media can be both difficult and daunting: for the average Internet user, controlling your privacy settings is often simply baffling (I stopped understanding how they function about three "new Facebooks" ago and I basically sleep with my laptop clutched to my breast). For any survivor of domestic… » 8/02/13 1:40pm 8/02/13 1:40pm

Nigella Lawson's soon-to-be-ex husband Charles Saatchi announced this weekend that he's divorcing his wife because she didn't make a big fucking show of defending him after a series of horrifying photos of him publicly strangling her made the media rounds a month ago. In his self-pitying statement announcing he was… » 7/10/13 12:30pm 7/10/13 12:30pm

Three in ten women have been "punched, shoved, dragged, threatened with weapons, raped, or subjected to other violence" from former or current boyfriends/husbands, while half of all murdered women are killed by their partners, according to the first global, systematic study of violence against women. » 6/21/13 1:40pm 6/21/13 1:40pm

Judging by tabloid talk shows, crazy ladies regularly cut holes in condoms and lie about taking birth control in order to trick men into becoming baby daddies. But doctors are now being instructed to look for the opposite: women who are pressured into getting pregnant. They're not rare. » 5/30/13 3:20pm 5/30/13 3:20pm