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Saving Grace: COVID-19, domestic violence a dangerous combination
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) During the early days of COVID-19, families found themselves under a “stay at home” order. This meant parents and children who before had lived like ships passing in the night were suddenly all together in a very tight port.
For some families, it was an opportunity to connect and identify healthy activities to share together; for others, it became a nightmare of violence and distress that would go on to cause trauma, injury, and death.
“Isolation and desperation are key contributors to the increase in domestic violence we have seen in Central Oregon. Not only have we seen an increase in the number of calls, but in the severity of violence,” says Cassi MacQueen, executive director of Saving Grace.
Domestic Abuse Has Been On The Rise In The Time Of Covid
While staying at home over the last many months has been helpful in preventing the spread of the pandemic, a pandemic of a different type has raged on. In some cases, quite literally.
For people trapped at home in an environment of domestic abuse, 2020 has created another level of hell.
Bristol University sociologist Marianne Hester studies abusive relationships. Sadly, domestic violence always goes up anyway during holidays or any occasion where families spend more time together. That includes Christmas or vacations, etc. So you can imagine how being locked-down for months and months would affect it even more.