A risk of pregnancy: abuse, homicide (San Antonio Express-News)- About: Pregnancy News

Calendar | E-cards | E-N Columnists | Family/Teens | Fashion | Fiesta | Food/Recipes | Home/Garden | Great Day S. Experts say from 4 percent to 8 percent of pregnant women are physically hurt by their partners — that’s 160,000 to 320,000 women a year. A Centers for Disease Control study found that pregnant and post-partum women are also at higher risk for homicide if they’re young or black. Higher numbers for black mothers — who have a maternal homicide rate seven times that of white women — might relate to unemployment of black men and the frustration they experience because of it, she says. Men who kill their pregnant partners tend to be "psychopaths," observes Pat Brown of the Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency in Minneapolis — self-absorbed narcissists who can feel neither empathy nor compassion. read more

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