As a black woman I can’t ignore the many challenges that black women have faced as a whole. Throughout our history we have struggled to maintain a level of dignity that was usually stripped away through some form of neglect or abuse. According to a new study released by the Violence Policy Center, black women are murdered by men at a rate more than two and a half times higher than white women in domestic violence situations. If you understand domestic violence, you also understand that these circumstances not only involve the women being abused but the children residing in the household. In many domestic violence cases when a woman has been beaten, sexually or emotionally abused, her children are witnesses to the crime that has been committed
