K-LOVE Closer Look: Quarantine Drives Spike In Domestic Abuse
Nat'l Domestic Abuse Hotline 1-800-799-7233 https://www.thehotline.org/ \nPhysical bruises are only small part of what some women and men suffer says Annette Oltmans of The MEND Project,\xa0which brings awareness to what she calls \u2018covert emotional abuse.\u2019 \u201cVictims begin questioning reality and their own sanity,\u201d explains Oltmans, herself a survivor of domestic abuse \u2013 and a Christian \u2013 who knows firsthand what\u2019s it like to \u2018live it.\u2019 Pastor Paul Cole, president of the Christian Men\u2019s Network, has been deeply concerned by the quarantine effect on families already stuffed in a pressure cooker of unhealthy reactions. \u201cA lot of times, we as men act out of anger, rage, disappointment \u2013 and we lash out at people,\u201d he says, urging men in this trap to reach out for help. K-LOVE's Billie Branham reports.