New Year’s Eve is coming — the deadliest time for domestic violence
Yet, men on the internet are still finding ways to blame the (murdered) victims
New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day may just be the deadliest 24 hours for domestic violence. From 5 p.m. New Year’s Eve in 2017 to 5 p.m. New Year’s Day in 2018, 10 women across the U.S. — different ages, socioeconomic groups, and ethnicities — were killed by a past or present partner. For comparison’s sake, on an average day, two or three women are killed by intimate partners.
If it happens again this year, will one of the 10 victims be someone you know, or will one of the perpetrators be someone in your family who you worry has violent tendencies — but you didn’t want to get involved?
The end of the year creates a toxic storm.
Experts say that the end of the year creates a toxic storm: Alcohol mixes with end-of-year budget woes and relatives in close quarters (including kids home from school). For some, the pressure is too much.
In the 24-hour period two years ago, some of the couples in these deadly incidents were married senior citizens, some were young West Coasters, and one family lived in a remote part of Texas. The only thing the cases had in common was that a man…
