Posted on 07/27/2020 10:29:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
At the height of New York’s coronavirus lockdown, domestic violence in the five boroughs skyrocketed, data show.
When the pandemic first laid siege, experts predicted that mandatory lockdowns and soaring unemployment would cause a rise in household abuse, and figures now bear them out — with domestic violence reports at some agencies doubling and even tripling in the past few months.
“We’ve never been busier,” lamented Nechama Bakst, senior director of the Met Council’s family-violence program.
“We have seen people who never experienced violence starting to experience violence, and people who have experienced violence experience worse violence.”
Typically, the non-profit gets about 70 new cases a month — but in April, they juggled 135, another 145 in May and 146 more in June, the organization said.
“We see more choking, more sexual violence, kind of much more intense and serious acts of crime,” the director said.
At Sanctuary for Families, which also works with survivors, there was a similar increase in calls to its helpline. …
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Well of COURSE!
I’ve been working from home now for four months. I mentioned to my wife a few days ago that, though we are both enjoying this very much, it must be hell for the unhappy marriages.
What happens when a wife has a “f**k buddy” that shows up every tuesday and thursday at one p.m.? This has gotta really screw up those plans.
The virus is relatively small potatoes.
The actions of the government are really screwing up a lot of people.
Obviously not enough sammiches bein’ made.
And this too is Donald Trump's fault.
It wasn’t the virus.
Same with suicides.
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