Robin Abcarian: New law doesn’t do enough to prevent the violence and abuse women face behind closed doors
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Mar 22, 2022
3 minutes
A couple of things unrelated to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine recently caught my eye, reminding me that while this conflict will eventually end, the violence visited upon women by loved ones is a war that endures.
I say “women” knowing full well that men and people with different gender identities are victims of domestic violence too. I’m using “women” as a shorthand, much the same way “men” has long stood for all of us, because women by far and away are victimized more often
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