{"id":10886,"date":"2024-04-10T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T03:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2024-03-03T20:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T03:06:43","slug":"domestic-violence-in-lesbian-couples-is-double-that-of-straight-or-other-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10886","title":{"rendered":"Domestic violence in lesbian couples is double that of straight or other couples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>43.8% of\u00a0lesbian\u00a0women\u00a0and 61.1% of\u00a0bisexual\u00a0women\u00a0have experienced rape, physical violence, and\/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, as opposed to 35% of heterosexual women.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>26% of\u00a0gay\u00a0men\u00a0and 37.3% of\u00a0bisexual\u00a0men\u00a0have experienced rape, physical violence, and\/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime, in comparison to 29% of heterosexual men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>After hearing about a domestic abuse case between two lesbians here in Portland, I had no idea that <a href=\"https:\/\/ncadv.org\/blog\/posts\/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq-community\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ncadv.org\/blog\/posts\/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq-community\">domestic violence in the LGBTQ community was so high<\/a> &#8211; especially between female couples where the rates are almost double that of straight couples or gay men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ncadv.org\/blog\/posts\/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq-community\">https:\/\/ncadv.org\/blog\/posts\/domestic-violence-and-the-lgbtq-community<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing about a domestic abuse case between two lesbians here in Portland, I had no idea that domestic violence in the LGBTQ community was so high &#8211; especially between female couples where the rates are almost double that of straight couples or gay men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2PA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10887,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}