![]() ![]() ![]() The United Nations called on Sunday for urgent action to combat the worldwide surge in domestic violence. Now, with families in lockdown worldwide, hotlines are lighting up with abuse reports, leaving governments trying to address a crisis that experts say they should have seen coming. ![]() Domestic violence goes up whenever families spend more time together, such as the Christmas and summer vacations, she said. There was every reason to believe that the restrictions imposed to keep the virus from spreading would have such an effect, said Marianne Hester, a Bristol University sociologist who studies abusive relationships. Add another public health crisis to the toll of the new coronavirus: Mounting data suggests that domestic abuse is acting like an opportunistic infection, flourishing in the conditions created by the pandemic. ![]()
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