{"id":19,"date":"2004-07-26T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2004-07-26T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2004-07-26T23:39:34","slug":"abuse-takes-increasing-toll-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/26\/abuse-takes-increasing-toll-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse takes increasing toll on women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Susman in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/\">Palm Beach Post<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Like alcoholism, physical abuse is a progressive disease,&#8221; says Marlene Spitz, domestic abuse coordinator for the Alpert Jewish Family &amp; Children&#8217;s Service of Palm Beach County Inc. &#8220;The level of violence nearly always increases because violence doesn&#8217;t get the controller what he wants, to kill the spirit of the victim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Domestic violence has escalated to the point that it is the leading cause of physical injury to women in the United States. Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten, and more than 2,000 are murdered each year by husbands or boyfriends.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/accent\/content\/auto\/epaper\/editions\/saturday\/accent_1410b372d432a17000c7.html\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Susman in Palm Beach Post reports: &#8220;Like alcoholism, physical abuse is a progressive disease,&#8221; says Marlene Spitz, domestic abuse coordinator for the Alpert Jewish Family &amp; Children&#8217;s Service of Palm Beach County Inc.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}