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Domestic violence

Wives, husbands, partners, children - all can be victims of the violence that erupts in the privacy of the family home.

When police forces across Britain decided to find out how much domestic violence there was in the UK, they chose a single day in September, did a study on incidents reported that - and got a tremendous shock.

"Using the survey ... we could say that an Incident of domestic violence occurs in the UK every six to 20seconds," reported London University's Professor Betsy Stanko, who analysed the results.

On the day of the survey, police received 1,300 callsrelating to domestic violence -which suggests a staggering 570,000 calls a year. Most calls related to attacks on women and included...