What is The Face of Domestic Violence?
Can you identify the domestic abuser, the domestic abuse victim, the innocent bystander?
YOU MAY NOT NEED THIS INFORMATION FOR YOURSELF, SO WHY TALK ABOUT IT?
Perhaps you believe that you have never known a victim. Perhaps you believe that you have never been in the presence of a batterer. Perhaps you believe that bystanders are weak. You owe to all that you believe to endow yourself with the tools to become the resource for a person who has been injured at the hands of another. You may, by necessity, have to be available to offer assistance or provide resource information to a victim who may not be able to verbalize what is going on. You owe it to the woman who shares the row or the pew with you in church on Sunday, the man who is parked next to you in the parking lot, the woman who sits across from you in the cafeteria- to familiarize yourself with what she may experience but for which she may be unable to get help. You owe it to the potential victim that lives next door to you to understand the role of the church in identifying and eliminating all vestiges of violence against individuals on any level.
