“Nearly 20 per cent of women who took their own lives were known to police because they were exposed to domestic violence as children, a new report by the NSW Domestic Violence Review Team has revealed.”
One in five women commit suicide because they saw domestic violence as children
by Nathalie Peacock | Nov 27, 2017 | Sector News
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