The eyes of pain. More and more, across the "greatest nation" we are finding out that we are not immune to civil rights abuses that affect the rest of the world. There have been several state and national studies that have found an alarming increase in domestic abuse reports. To a view a few articles about the noticeable increase, click these hyperlinks...
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It seems that human beings are always looking for something to control. A way to have some form of purpose or power... and in these trying times... where more and more men are finding that their illusions of power and control over their position in America is waning... they will find control "somewhere." All domestic violence is not from men, but most is... and because men are significantly larger and genetically built with more muscle mass (on average), it is easier (and more dangerous) for a man to give into these feelings of "physical control." Domestic violence isn't the same as murder, but I remember a story about Ted Bundy... as he described his pleasure from murder saying that in the moment when he's attacking a woman, he enjoyed the idea of looking into a woman's eyes and he could tell that she knew that he was in total control.
Its a taboo subject, and one that gets no airplay in the mainstream media... because the mainstream media is corporate driven garbage focused on ratings not whats important, and they know this type of story will do nothing but drive viewers away, but something that happens to too frequently... to women all over the nation, and something that needs to be addressed... more and more.
I dont watch a lot of "weekly" tv shows, but Bill Moyers is a public access, i.e. not corporate driven, show that comes on Friday nights on PBS. Click here to watch a March interview with Marta Palaez, president and CEO of (San Antonio based) Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc. as she talks about a rise in the women and children silently dealing with the increase in domestic violence over the last year.
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