On September 15, 2009 the National Network to End Domestic Violence (www.nnedv.org) organized a 24 hour census of domestic violence programs across the U.S. 1,648 out of 1,980 programs participated. The results of the census reported that 65,321 victims were served on that one day alone. That is about 46 victims every minute and on an annual basis over 23 million victims. The numbers tell us how huge the problem is but they don’t tell the human side of the story. Here are some stories behin...

Statistics are meant to make a point.

Take this statistic for instance; 4.8 million women are either physically abused or raped by an intimate partner each year that according to The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. 4,800,000 is a big number no matter how you express it.

But let’s now take a real close look at that number.  If 4,800,000 women are physically abused or raped by an intimate partner annually that equates to 13,150 women who are physically abused or raped by...