Tuesday, December 9, 2008

budget cuts that hit the most vunerable?!

we realize that we have been focusing on women's issues lately, but hotstuff and hotpants are card-carrying feminists (and margaret was definitely going down that road too ;)), so it's hard not to, and you're gonna have to agree w/ me on this one:

WTF?! king county is cutting the domestic violence unit? serious WTF! quote from a kuow interview:
"SERGEANT JOHN URQUHART...CALLS THE CLOSURE OF THE COUNTY'S TEN–YEAR–OLD DOMESTIC VIOLENCE UNIT A MONUMENTAL CUTBACK TO A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM... 44% OF WOMEN IN KING COUNTY EXPERIENCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THEIR LIFE TIMES... IT IS ESTIMATED THAT APPROXIMATELY 80,000 KING COUNTY CHILDREN ARE EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EVERY YEAR."

there are many reasons why someone may be abusive, but one of the reasons is not having a job ... ummm job loss... yeah... there seems to be some of that going around these days.

i'm not sure how to fight this, but if you have an idea, let us know.

link to the kuow interview transcript
CDC fact sheet on intimate partner violence
more info on domestic violence

3 comments:

Notorious said...

damn straight! I could not agree with this post more!!! WTF???

ThePeat said...

Also health care for children.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/392738_budget18.html?source=rss

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