Domestic Violence

Perspective

A Pandemic within a Pandemic — Intimate Partner Violence during 

Covid-19

List of authors.  Megan L. Evans, M.D., M.P.H., Margo Lindauer, J.D., and Maureen E. Farrell, M.D.

As Covid-19 cases surged in the United States in March 2020, stay-at-home orders were put in place. Schools closed, and many workers were furloughed, laid off, or told to work from home. With personal movement limited and people confined to their homes, advocates expressed concern about a potential increase in intimate partner violence (IPV). read entire article here


1. What is domestic violence?