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Women's Rights & Issues

zipplewrath

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2. All too common

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2018, 02:46 PM

Apr 2018

My spouse works with abused spouses. They frequently arrive after having worked with clergy. Far too often the implication of their counsel is that the woman is somehow responsible for the abuse, often connected somehow to a lack of proper faith.

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