My household has a five year no contact against my grandaughters dad. The fact is crazy people have no respect for the law, common decency or humanity, so the paper law doesn’t change the threat landscape much. Control is a dark thing.

To them who abuse and threaten, they are the victims, as they assault and oppress for control.

many women and their children find that their options have disappeared.

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many women dissappear shortly after there options do.

If you replace your phone give the old one to a Womens shelter. They need to know they can call in an emergency and due to the control exerted on them many are with out means to call for help.

Thank you so much for this important article, Pat. It is devastating to see that women are always last on line when it comes to protection against violence. Kristof’s article earlier this year, Is Rape Serious? was likewise a frightening eye opener — that rape kits sit around for up to 10 years without being processed.

Really people. Priorities, priorities.

We need a law that no more laws can be passed unless along with the law is passed a funding bill. If we are not willing to pass a funding bill specifying the source of the income for the program that cannot later be withdrawn, then let us not make ourselves feel good by passing a law that cannot be enforced as intended.

If we want better education or “no child left behind,” then pass funding sources. If we believe in three strikes and you are in jail for life, pass funding for new prisons and staff. If we want medical insurance for all, then tell me exactly what new income stream will pay for it instead of how savings by eliminating waste are going to pay for any of it. If the government could have saved us money all of this time and did not, then they should all be replaced because of their incompetency.

Rich

A suggestion has been made on a website that if we can’t afford to make a cash donation, then we should clean out our closets, gather up all the toys our kids have out grown and donate them to a local women’s shelter. I would suggest calling first to see what they need before dumping off things they don’t need.

We can’t fund these programs, along with providing Health Care to all; Grants and Loans for College, and other great needs when we have a never-ending Long War going on.

You can go here and see how much your State and locancommunity has spent on the wars: http://costofwar.com/ This money could have been in the current budget to keep alive these needed programs. Take Action: End the War(s)

A walk around the streets of San Francisco has been an eye-opener for over 20 years–the homeless huddled here and there, many talking to themselves, or to God or some other invisible presence. I guess there will now be more abused women among the helpless throngs . . .

The image is so effective and direct it hurts, Pat.