在美国的家庭生活中,丈夫对妻子施加暴力的情况时有发生。因此在美国许多地方,专门为忍受不了丈夫虐待而逃出家门的妇女设立了临时避难所。目前这种避难所已有七百处之多,地址保密,以防止丈夫跑来寻找妻子,妇女们是由警察、学校、教会、行政机关和医院介绍来的,她们大多带着孩子。 Husbands often violate their wives in the family life in the United States. Therefore, in many parts of the United States, temporary shelters have been set up specifically for women who escaped from their homes to endure abusive husbands. At present there are as many as seven hundred shelters of this kind. The addresses are kept confidential to prevent their husbands from looking for wives. Women are introduced by police, schools, churches, administrations and hospitals, most of whom carry children.