Living
with the
enemy

A woman who'd been kicked in
the head by a boyfriend as they
were leaving a bar is helped by a
police officer.Every 15 seconds in
the U.S. a woman is beaten

by a man she knows.

 

 

A mother and her infant son slept
peacefully after arriving at the

Women Against Violence Shelter.

The next morning she announced,

“It was our first safe night in a long time.”

 

After escaping the violence of her own marriage, Janice witnessed
the murder of her friend Kim, whose husband stabbed her to death at
the bus stop with her children looking on and crying,”Daddy, please
don’t hurt Mommy!”

 

When Diana was rushed into a

Minneapolis emergency room, her
chest was covered with black tire
marks. Her boyfriend had driven
over her with a truck. "He wanted
me to get out, but I kept holding
onto the door handle. Then I let go.
He ran over my chest with his back
wheels.” And kept going.

 

Reprinted from Ms. Magazine, September/October 1991