Great article on the progress made against domestic violence and the massive work that still needs to be done:

While the recession hasn’t had much impact on rates of domestic violence, it has had an impact on how many survivors seek out services. And McLaughlin says that even though economic vulnerability won’t turn a non-abusive family into an abusive one, it can exacerbate abusive relationships: “poverty is a co-conspirator of an abuser,” she says. But federal funding for shelters and other services has remained more or less flat. The result: a gap between requests for services and the ability to provide them, which has remained persistent throughout the recession.

McLaughlin’s group, NNEDV, has conducted a“One-Day Census" of shelters and service providers since 2006. They’ve seen "unmet requests” go from just over 5,000 in the first year of the survey to 9,000-10,000 every year since 2008.

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