Up to half of all women who take their own lives have been impacted by domestic violence, shocking new research reveals.Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety also found children who grew up around violence were more likely to self-harm, while domestic violence offenders were using threats of suicide as a tactic of coercive control.
The alarming research – submitted to the federal government’s parliamentary inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide – comes as Queensland police charged 92 offenders with coercive control against 219 victims since the new law came into effect in May last year.
The organisation’s research found 15 women die by suicide each week in Australia, and up to 56 per cent of those women had been a victim of domestic violence.
Source: Half of women suicide victims linked to domestic violence | The Courier Mail