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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence

Separation/Divorce Sexual Assault in Rural Communities

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Rus Ervin Funk

The paper concludes by finding that many women were sexually assaulted at various points in the separation process: 53% being sexually assaulted when they wanted to leave, 32% while they were leaving, and 37% after they had left.

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