{"id":1140,"date":"2004-10-02T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/02\/domestic-violence-spikes-after-hurricane\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T00:44:11","slug":"domestic-violence-spikes-after-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Violence Spikes After Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the St. Petersburg Times <\/i><\/a> (and via Trish Wilson<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“The phone is ringing and people are flooding in,” said Kay Tavorach, director of the Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies in Punta Gorda, where Hurricane Charley struck Aug. 13.<\/p>\n

“Domestic violence is both emotional abuse and physical abuse, and there’s plenty of both in Charlotte County right now,” Tavorach said.<\/p>\n

Four hurricanes in six weeks have led to a spike in calls to domestic violence shelters, and victims’ advocates fear more are on the way as recovery efforts, spread thin across the state, plod on.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jeb Bush is quoted attributing the increase to frayed nerves.<\/p>\n

Maybe so, but I wonder (when my nerves are frayed, I don’t find myself punching my housemates). Many abused women don’t report the abuse because they don’t want to destroy a home life they’ve invested so much in. When your home has already <\/i>been destroyed, is the motive to take abuse silently reduced?<\/p>\n

The article also contained this intereting tidbit about divorce.<\/p>\n

After Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida in 1992, domestic violence complaints in Dade County shot up 50 percent and divorce rates by 30 percent.<\/p>\n

Researchers at Florida International University found that many of the couples who split after the storm did so because of money – not too little, but too much. Couples whose marriages already were faltering couldn’t agree how to spend the insurance check and found it easier to split than fix the marriage.<\/p><\/div>\n

The article also noted that Dade County’s domestic violence levels took two years to return to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the St. Petersburg Times (and via Trish Wilson). “The phone is ringing and people are flooding in,” said Kay Tavorach, director of the Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies in Punta Gorda, where Hurricane Charley struck Aug. 13. “Domestic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}