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Six essential qualities that
are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy,
wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
6/20/07 Monday morning friends and supporters of the Promise
Place gathered at the Fayette County Justice Center to celebrate the opening
of their new location. Due to the need for privacy, the ribbon cutting could
not be held at the new shelter.
Promise Place is a non-governmental, non-profit agency that
provides comprehensive services to adults and children who are victims of
domestic violence within the Griffin Judicial circuit, which includes Fayette,
Spalding, Pike and Upson Counties. Over the past 20 years, Promise Place has
grown from a small grassroots organization to active, community recognized
agency with four paid staff members and more than 50 volunteers.
A few facts:
Nearly one-third (1 out of 3) of all American women report being
physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in
their lives.
Battering is the
leading cause of injury to women - more than rapes, muggings, and
automobile accidents combined.
Seventy-five
percent of women who are killed in a domestic violence incident are
murdered after they leave or separate from their partners.
The leading cause
of death among pregnant women is homicide.
More secretaries
were slain on the job in 1993 than police officers and bartenders
combined. Homicide is the leading cause of death to women in the
workplace.
Children from homes
where domestic violence occurs are abused or seriously neglected at a rate
15 times the national average.
Children growing up
in violent homes are 74% more likely to commit a crime when they get
older.
Sixty-three percent of all males between ages 11 and 20 who are doing time
for homicide in America killed their mother's batterer.
Injuries due to
domestic violence result in $10 million in medical billings in this
country each year.
Employers lose
between $3 and $5 billion every year in absenteeism, lower productivity,
higher turnover and health and safety costs associated with battered
workers.
In 2002 there were
over 600 domestic violence incident reports made out to law enforcement
agencies in Fayette County. The FBI estimates that only 1 our of 10
domestic violence incidents is actually reported.
Nearly one-third (1 out of 3) of all American women report being
physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in
their lives.
