OPINION: Domestic violence is everybody’s business
Every nine seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten in the U.S. Just think about this for a minute.
Alas, in the time that it has taken you to think about this statistic, another woman was assaulted. Undoubtedly, statistics have a way of bringing us to a new kind of consciousness about a particular issue. Hence the common practice of using statistics to make a point. However, when we hear the same figures over and over again, it can sometimes have an alternative effect of numbing us to the issue being discussed. So, let me give you this same statistic from another view. It means that the time it has taken me to write this article, close to 400 women were ostensibly victims of domestic abuse/violence.