The phrase "abuse is less" is grammatically correct but may lack clarity without additional context.
It can be used when discussing a reduction in the frequency or severity of abuse in a particular situation or over time.
Example: "In recent years, studies have shown that abuse is less prevalent in communities with strong support systems."
Alternatives: "abuse has decreased" or "abuse is diminished."
Pacelle has stated that animal abusers can be "rehabilitated" and therefore recurring abuse is less of a concern.
Now Oxford is the focus of concerted efforts to prevent a repeat of the problems that have blighted the city, it seems similar abuse is less likely to be an issue here.
Compared to the general population, a previous history of ICDs or substance abuse is less frequent in PD patients developing ICDs after the initiation of dopamine replacement therapy (Gallagher et al. 2007).
The broad "any IPV" umbrella included any reported emotional, physical, and sexual IPV; if one type of abuse is less relevant to type 2 diabetes risk than the others, then its inclusion might have diluted our duration and recency of IPV results.
The areas where this form of abuse is less common (much of Khyber Pakhtunkwa, formerly North West Frontier Province, and the interior of Sindh province) are those where women's mobility is typically restricted to within the homestead, unless accompanied by a male family member.
The fact is, when people are in a foreign country, in an unfamiliar region, they can act in complete anonymity and convince themselves that child abuse is less reprehensible in a different social and cultural context, and that the moral principles in force in their own country do not apply.
Clinical research offers no support for the idea that victims of childhood sexual abuse are less damaged when the offenders are female.
Other models of abuse are less organised but still involve taking children to locations for the purpose of abusing them, either in exchange for money or for a ride home, alcohol or drugs.
In boys, however, the difference between non-parental/adult caregiver versus parent/adult caregiver perpetrated sexual abuse was less defined, particularly for non-parental abuse motivated by physical force.
Those who reported a history of heroin and cocaine use were more likely to have had prior criminal charges, while those who reported prescription drug abuse were less likely to have had prior criminal charges.
Both she and Ms Criado-Perez, who was targeted after campaigning to put a picture of Jane Austen on £10 notes, agreed that there was a damaging perception that online abuse was less severe than that occurring in the "real world".
