Initially considered a suicide, police turned their attention to the boyfriend. “He was becoming a huge problem. We had been trying to get her away from him,” her sister said.

Forcing survivors to litigate their restraining order hearings is a regular reality — and a gaping fault in a system that continues to fail battered women, advocates say.

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of domestic ... domestic violence and homelessness. The surveys were conducted at women's shelters in Salem, Oregon, about 25 miles ...

To understand the impact of domestic violence on women’s housing stability, the Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.