Lyda Fuller heard a heartache's worth of sad stories as she interviewed northern women about how hard it is to find a home for themselves and their children, but one comment was particularly chilling.

"I've thought about hiring someone to beat me up so I can stay at the women's shelter," one Iqaluit woman says in the study of Canada's three Arctic territories.


"I know it sounds crazy, but that's what desperation does to your mind when you have no place to go."

Hmm, isn't that the situation homeless men find themselves in from the get go?!

Anyway, the rest is here.