Immigrant women in the South Asian community have to overcome not just power imbalances within their relationships and culture, but also hidden imbalances in U.S. immigration and domestic law, which tilt control toward their husbands.
Domestic Violence
Dressed in neat scrubs, Akima Adams, 23, stood small and slight before the judge.
This special report was underwritten in part with a grant from the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund....
The Enquirer will host a Facebook Live event at noon Thursday to discuss how to expand the solutions described in the news organization’s in-depth report last month about domestic violence in the Cincinnati.
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Anyone seeing Khambete from a distance could be forgiven for thinking that just like so many Indian Americans, she too was living the American Dream. Yet all wasn’t well at home.
Locked out of her Fremont apartment after a domestic dispute turned violent, Priya huddled terrified in a corner of the hallway. Her new husband had thrown her outside without a blanket, after shoving her onto a sofa and breaking her arm.
Schools across Ohio and Kentucky are now teaching violence prevention courses in high school and social-emotional learning in grade school.
A Cincinnati domestic violence survivor credits her life to a partnership between Cincinnati Police and a local nonprofit that bought her assistance.
A Mexican woman details the physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of two husbands.
To examine the intergenerational legacy of domestic violence, The Enquirer focused on one month's criminal court docket in Hamilton County for the crime then built a database of family histories.