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This is in response to Kathryn Williams Palmer's letter, printed March 19, about domestic violence. Palmer is the executive director of he Abused Women's Advocacy Project in Auburn.
Contrary to her statement that economics does not affect violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline released data on Jan. 30 that suggests a link between financial stress and domestic violence. And contrary to her opinion that the abuse is a person's "choice," psychologist Steven Stosny, Ph.D., states, "It's not that batterers want to harm the people they love, and they don't do it because they're angry, or because they have bad attitudes toward women. At the bottom, they do it because they have too little compassion."See the full content of this document
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Violence and Economics
Maine's Attorney General, Steve Rowe, st...
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