Mary Schaffer spent years doing all she could to keep herself and her children safe from her aggressive ex-husband, and was able to secure a protection order against him. Despite all her careful ...

Cassandra felt hopeless. “The police keep telling me to get a protection order, but it keeps getting denied because I haven’t had any physical abuse,” she explained. “But my ex keeps driving by, ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — As domestic violence shelters are seeing an increase in calls for help during the pandemic, a new tool is available to protect survivors. "Ohio domestic violence networks saw more than ...

About 10 individuals each weekday, and a few thousand annually, ask Franklin County Common Pleas Court’s domestic relations division to issue an order protecting them from a domestic abuser. To better ...

A month after China’s landmark domestic violence law took effect on March 1, 2016, Ah Lian reported her abusive husband to police. Yet the officers in her rural village in eastern China’s Jiangxi ...