The cuts, recently upheld by the Court of Appeal, mean there are more stringent tests when applying for legal funding, which often leaves abused women to fight their cases without legal assistance.
All mentally retarded cases were abused physically and the two servant cases were sexually abused as this vulnerable population has no ability to leave abusive relationships.
Alcohol is the most widely abused substance worldwide and numerous studies have revealed that it has widespread effects on the immune system and leaves abusers at increased risk of a variety of infections.
But the picture that is emerging is more nuanced, eccentric and confusing than the caricature of negligent or uncaring parents leaving terribly abused children in their wake.
"Another way of looking at this is that the state abdicated its responsibilities, and the church was left with the abused, the battered, the orphaned," said Kevin Whelan, a historian and the director of the Keough Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame in Dublin.
One thing that would constantly crop up were stories of girls who had run away from their loving Indian families, into the arms of Muslim men, only to be trapped in the relationship, left miserable and abused by them in some way.
According to a 2004 study, 48% of abused women delayed leaving their abusers due to fear for their pet's safety.
Playing the part of the Daughter Grown Up (and unwanted in the first place), she is sexually abused and left crumpled on the floor.
And at 14, she was dead -- battered, sexually abused and left in a gutter in the Fordham section of the Bronx.
In the novel, Esther manages to beat him off, but is left dirtied, humiliated and abused, and on her return to the Amazon [the Barbizon] goes up to the roof of the hotel and throws all her clothes off the parapet.
