‘Tis the season many of us anticipate with joy, visits with family and friends. ‘Tis also the season when many dread the tension, financial woes and beatings.
As we have just come out of the month designated as Domestic Violence Awareness month, there will be many that won’t think about it until next October, or at least April when we will observe Sexual Assault and Crime Victims Rights Month.
We have really been trying to figure out how to change the practice that we observe these things in the designated month and then the angels continue to be overrun with victims to minister to, as we wait to observe it again next year.
I did some research and will admit that it is not a very scientific approach. I wanted to see if I could determine about how many domestic violence incidents occurred each month and if there were months that had much lower occurrences than others. My first problem is that not many states publish monthly statistics and those that do, are not regular, so I had to compare different years data to try and see the results. Still, the numbers seem to be near enough to give us a trend. Another problem, is that the incidents were not published by month for most states. I was only able to find four states monthly numbers for a year, Utah, PA, NC and Mass. Totals by month are: Jan - 14, Feb - 9, Mar - 21, Apr - 19, May - 21, June - 16, July - 21, Aug - 14, Sep - 22, Oct - 15, Nov - 8, Dec - 16. The point we are making is that abuse happens year round and October and April hypes don’t get it done. We need to be presenting Domestic Violence the Musical every month!
Let’s all get busy and forget about the October and April National designation and work each month to do our best to prevent Domestic Violence. WHAT A CHRISTMAS PRESENT!! YIPPIEEEE NO BEATINGS THIS MONTH, or ever again.
As we have just come out of the month designated as Domestic Violence Awareness month, there will be many that won’t think about it until next October, or at least April when we will observe Sexual Assault and Crime Victims Rights Month.
We have really been trying to figure out how to change the practice that we observe these things in the designated month and then the angels continue to be overrun with victims to minister to, as we wait to observe it again next year.
I did some research and will admit that it is not a very scientific approach. I wanted to see if I could determine about how many domestic violence incidents occurred each month and if there were months that had much lower occurrences than others. My first problem is that not many states publish monthly statistics and those that do, are not regular, so I had to compare different years data to try and see the results. Still, the numbers seem to be near enough to give us a trend. Another problem, is that the incidents were not published by month for most states. I was only able to find four states monthly numbers for a year, Utah, PA, NC and Mass. Totals by month are: Jan - 14, Feb - 9, Mar - 21, Apr - 19, May - 21, June - 16, July - 21, Aug - 14, Sep - 22, Oct - 15, Nov - 8, Dec - 16. The point we are making is that abuse happens year round and October and April hypes don’t get it done. We need to be presenting Domestic Violence the Musical every month!
Let’s all get busy and forget about the October and April National designation and work each month to do our best to prevent Domestic Violence. WHAT A CHRISTMAS PRESENT!! YIPPIEEEE NO BEATINGS THIS MONTH, or ever again.
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