CLOSER LOOK: Quarantine Drives Spike In Domestic Abuse

Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 by Billie Branham, ed. Marya Morgan

Physical bruises are only small part of what some women and men suffer, says Annette Oltmans of The MEND Project, which brings awareness to what she calls ‘covert emotional abuse.’  "Victims begin questioning reality and their own sanity,” she explains, herself a survivor of domestic abuse – and a Christian – who knows firsthand what’s it like to ‘live it.’  Pastor Paul Cole, president of the Christian Men’s Network, has been deeply concerned by the quarantine effect on families already stuffed in a pressure cooker of unhealthy reactions. “A lot of times, we as men act out of anger, rage, disappointment – and we lash out at people,” he says, and urges men in this trap to reach out for help. K-LOVE's Billie Branham reports.

RELATED LINKS:

The National Domestic Abuse Hotline 1-800-799-7233

https://www.thehotline.org/

The MEND Project - Educate. Equip. Restore

Christian Men's Network

Advice for Men: New Surge of Domestic Violence and How to Stop it – by Pastor Paul Cole

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YOU ARE NOT ALONE. If your partner physically or emotional abuses you -- or you don’t know how to stop hurting your family... Call the CLOSER LOOK PASTORS (844) 364 4673 (HOPE).

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