This work comes with incalculable hardships, including rape and beatings.
"I have sat with women from Ohio and across the nation and heard them talk about their varying experiences: abusive relationships, financial hardship, health scares, rape and incest," wrote Ryan.
Many of the victims had already faced more hardship than anyone should — violent men, rape, mental problems, addiction — but there had always been the hope that, with love and support, they could make it through intact.
Related: Balkan Wartime Rape Victims Continue to Face Hardships Decades After Conflict.
After refuting the rumors, Memphis officials soberly connected the city's relatively high rate of pregnant teenagers to long-term hardships like poverty and family abuse, including childhood rape.
According to their website, Love Contracts "are a quick and easy way to keep your love-making safe from potential false rape claims and other such unwarranted hardships".I think they're a fantastic idea.
The furor that ensued after NEA chair John Frohnmayer defended the poem, which employed a compromising depiction of Jesus Christ in illustrating the hardships endured by the perpetrators of a widely discussed rape, led him to resign.
But in her zeal to promote the benefits of disclosure, she neglects to mention that women who have been raped still tend to endure a type of hardship which rarely -- if ever -- affects any other crime victims who seek justice.
Rape, imprisonment, starvation, beatings – these are just some of the hardships revealed by people fleeing war and persecution to make the dangerous journey across northern Africa to get to Europe in our collection of photo stories from the Red Cross.
By the end of her life she had come to know hardship — bouncing from job to job, living in near squalor, telling of abortions and rape.
