Hello everyone! I’d like to apologize to our faithful visitors for any downtime or glitches they may have experienced while visiting the site. Our web host had some issues which resulted in our site going offline for a bit and then being all out of whack when it came back online. Let’s hope this does not happen again. I feel horrible knowing that our faithful visitors were not able to access information they may have needed from the site.
We would like to welcome everyone back to the site by having 2 prizes for June’s Giveaway! Once again, my good friend Christine from Headbands Etc. will be donating the lovely Domestic Violence Awareness bracelets. Please make sure to check out her Facebook page, as she makes some beautiful custom-made jewelry. I would like to also mention that all proceeds from her Awareness line of jewelry go to its respective cause.
How to enter this giveaway:
- Visit and “Like” our Domestic Violence Statistics Facebook (if you haven’t already done so).
- “Like” every status update I make, from now until the end of the contest, on our Facebook page. Each “Like” is an additional entry.
- Winner will be picked at the end of the month and notified via a status update, so please remember to check our wall, July 1st.
That’s all! Good luck everyone! 
Oh yeah, here’s the prize…
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Domestic Violence is one of the worst forms of women’s life. How can it be possible to face such condition in our daily life? So I aware to every women, Let’s have a women’s unity from every corner of the world.
Ira
Nepal
The problem with D/V (and S/A) in domestic situations can be squarely laid on law enforcement and the prejudices of our so called “domestic violence victims advocates”.
Beatings are crimes. Rape is a felony. Anyone can report it, victim or not. And some are required by law to report it. When the police (and I do mean law enforcement, not just some advocates) do not then respond as if a crime has happened, to be investigated, that is corruption. Each and every time.
The real crime of what happened when OJ got away with killing his wife was that the police never did respond to a “crime” which is exactly what she reported, several times.
We blame the victim EVERY time we expect her (or him) to flee. We are blaming the victim EVERY TIME some crisis line call reciever sits on their backsides and does not turn over what appears to be a report of rape or D/V.
Every time Planned parenthood does NOT turn in to the police that a rape is known to have happened, it is a crime against the victim, not just what the abusers and rapists (married to the victim or not) are doing but all the abusers enablers which are more often than not, advocates who somehow expect the victim to be re-educated out of her (unsaid) stupidity.
Do you think we victims don’t know you believer “if only we were enlightened” by you “oh so much more intelligent” people than us.
Every time you ignore our religions and DO NOT come, you betray us!
Every time.
We have both the right to our beliefs and to be rescued.
And we KNOW that.
You do not have any right to obligate us to go get educated and do it all ourselves before you will help.
It is YOUR faith that says we are lving in “learned helplessness.”
But it is our tax dollars the same as yours which are paying for law enforcement to go help every other kind of vicitm of CRIMES but the ones committed in D/V and S/A against us whose abusers live WITH us.
The ignorance and prejudice is not ours.
Those who cover for rapists and abusers are as culpable as they.
It’s just not customary in the USA or UK.
But, it is and has always been illegal to force/coerce/extort a wife to testify against her own husband.
EVIDENCE testifies. Bruises testify. HIPPA allows government to seek and obtain evidence we provide every time we go show a doctor.
It is NOT us who are not doing our jobs to stop abuse.
It is YOU.
Actually, this is quite an ignorant statement. Many states do not have mandated reporting for dometic violence and sexual assault. In fact, it is illegal to report such crimes to law enforcement unless the victim wants a report taken. And even if some bistander makes a report, if the victim doesn’t cooperate, eg. tell the officer what happened, there is nothing that they can do about it. So before you go blaming everyone in the judicial system, you might want to check your facts. Furthermore, even if the abuser is caught, he/she is not going to go to jail forever. The victim is still going to have to take it upon themselves to take advantage of the help that’s there (shelters, education, job training, etc.) and get out.
Though it may not be in the news everyday, the sad truth is that domestic violence is very real and threatens the lives of countless victims everyday. Often the abuse starts small, with perhaps one altercation, but without consequence it can become a routine occurrence. I find the issues surrounding domestic violence to be particularly important because of the extreme detriment it can inflict on the lives of innocent people. If education and support could be made available worldwide, it would revolutionize how domestic abuse is seen. It is in this potential for change that makes the issue so IMPORTANT. Unfortunately, the ability to calculate exactly how many cases of domestic abuse occur each year is limited, as it is a chronically underreported crime and victims often forgive, or temporarily reconcile, with their attacker. I would like to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves, to give a voice to the thousands suffering in silence. Global education can provide people with the skills to leave a dangerous environment, as well as how to recognize warning signs, and stop cycles of abuse.
Over a yr ago my husbend of 17yrs punched me repeatedly 10times in my face n arm. He was drunk. The only time he ever hit me. Courts made him take classes, and me as well. We just started talking again. I’m trying 2 decide if he has changed or helped himself enough, to hav changed. He regrets his actions {as to be expected} but I don’t know if its a safe idea 4 me to giv him a second chance. He was under a lot of stress from my 17yr old accusing him of beating her cuz she wasn’t allowed 2 date. She confessed it was a lie… but the stress it caused him after he raised her, her entire life, turned him 2 DV incident. I don’t want 2 be one of those women who return, and later end up dead.