--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > I comfort my mother and pray for my brother. Violence > > > against women isn't so far away. It's in our homes, quietly > > > hidden in families too afraid or ashamed to tell anyone > > > about it. I'm talking and it's damn painful. I don't have > > > the any answers for my niece, but I do have a responsibility > > > to speak on her behalf and tell her story, here and now just > > > to see if I'm alone in the echo chamber or resonating with > > > someone out there I don't know. > > > > Raunchy, your niece's story makes my heart hurt. I hope > > she'll be getting psycholgical counseling as well as > > medical treatment to help her get past this awful trauma > > and get on with her life. > > > > Thanks, Judy. She's living with a girlfriend. Her two youngest kids are with > her. She's on antidepressants. Psychological counseling is an unbelievably > remote possibility considering her circumstances. She's unemployed and on > foodstamps. My mother, brother and I send her some money to get by, but > that's about it. > > She has a case worker through social services, but I don't know how much good > that will do. As shocking as this may sound, her previous caseworker tried to > force her to give him a blow job. She filed a police report. Since it was > just he-said she-said, they didn't do anything about it. He still has his > job. That gives you an idea of how impoverished social services have become > in Michigan. > > We don't know if the boyfriend is still in jail. I hope he stays in there > long enough that she doesn't feel tempted to go back to him. As crazy as that > sounds, it happens all the time. Abused women have so few resources, they > become dependent on the abuser. > It is a shame, if she can't get the proper resources to help her... In a society based on the buck...the buck is all powerful...
Besides the buck, what is it about this poor girl, that attracts men to her, that are overly aggressive and macho? Why does she need validation from these men... And why is she having babies, when she is obviously not even able to take care of herself...? She needs to grow up, and take some responsibility, of who she decides she is going to give her body, and the motivation behind giving her body to someone, who is capable of such vile violence... You can go murder this guy, but, then will she just find another guy to take this fool's place? r.g.
