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Nobody believes that
domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This
world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children
see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights
to children.”
We
can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our
friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence”
“Domestic violence
causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating
to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated
that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each
year in the United States.” “Domestic
violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report
knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately
one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually
abused by a dating partner.” "If
the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence,
the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the
news every night." No
woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not
alone. Every
woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are
many more. If
you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It
is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. There
is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality,
and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and
what they hope to get out of life.
Child
abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.” Portraits
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