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Domestic Violence Happens Each Sunday—Not Just Super Bowl Sunday from U.S. News Health, 1/31/13

Thursday, January 31, 2013

The article reports, “Urban myths rarely have a useful purpose other than to confound, outrage, and frighten people into passing them along. But there’s a silver lining to this one—the idea that Super Bowl Sunday is linked to the highest incidences of domestic abuse in the country. While experts in the field dismiss that theory, they value the increased attention paid to domestic violence on the occasion.”

View the full article at: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2013/01/31/is-domestic-violence-most-common-on-super-bowl-sunday_print.html