Your views: Speak up against domestic violence
Domestic violence is an important social issue today being that most victims have little to no education about it and it can cause long-lasting trauma. When it comes to domestic violence you do not have to be a part of a certain class to experience it but it has a greater effect on those living in poverty.
Imagine being isolated from family and friends with no support. You are at a point in your relationship where you fear your spouse and must be submissive. Within the last year, there has never been a week where you have not been verbally or physically abused. You have a child and no job. Your lack of employment is not self-driven. It’s due to your spouse telling you not to work. Although you may view the treatment as a display of love, professionals view it as a form of power and control.
It is known that people living in poverty are more subjective to domestic violence. When they experience it what do they do? Can they afford to find resources to help them? If they have no transportation and their money is limited, how can they truly afford to search for help. One may think searching the internet may help however having access to a computer is not always available. Having a social worker to assist with food stamps and daycare would be a great way be a part of the solution. Most people living in poverty must renew those things routinely. During that renewal process it would be awesome if they were given an option to talk to a social worker. It starts with awareness.
Shenita Dunkley is a graduate of Edison High School and Langston University. She is studying for master's degree in social work at the University of Oklahoma.
What is President Biden doing with our money?
President Biden continues to try and make all of us feel sorry for the children when their illegal parents have brought them into our country. It is a fact that many of these children were abandoned here by their illegal parents. Now Biden wants to give huge sums of money (our tax dollars) to these illegal families because they were separated from their children.
We love children but this illegal immigration is insanity. If these parents cared about their children, why would they break our laws and drag their children into a brutal dangerous travel knowing their law-breaking consequences.
My question to President Biden is “What about the American children and horror they and their parents are facing? They are in grave danger that you have left them behind in Afghanistan. Where are your priorities? These are legal patriotic Americans who helped our country.
Are illegal alien families much more important than our own legal American families?
These Americans left in Afghanistan appear to be merely forgotten by you and your administration. Should the criminals in American prisons who have broken our laws make American taxpayers give their families hundreds of dollars also? This is similar reasoning.
You apparently have put American families in Afghanistan in grave danger and only focus on the families of illegal breaking our laws.
Best you should re-think giving away millions of our taxpayer dollars to those illegals who have forcefully broken our countries laws. Americans don’t want this huge crazy money gift to those illegals that are now here. Lastly please stop encouraging more dangerous illegal immigration by expressing your incentive to give big money to those illegals crossing our borders. This money is our taxpayer money, not yours.
Betty K. Thomas, Stockton
This article originally appeared on The Record: Letters to the editor
