Not Just a Movie of the Week Issue

An educational video shown in health class or a Lifetime afternoon movie do not convey how close to home this epidemic of domestic violence is to the Nashville area. Many victims don't come forward or do not know exactly how to define what is happening to them.This topic being a new one for me, I had no idea that the below statistics were this bleak.

An estimated one in three women will experience abuse at the hands of a loved one within her lifetime. When the formula is applied to Davidson County census data, as many as 77,485 local women have been or are likely to become victims of domestic violence and 20,524 girls are in this group.

Domestic violence is the single largest cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States.

Domestic violence is the single largest cause of homelessness among women in the United States