“Real men don’t hit girls or women,” said San Antonio City Councilman Manny Pelaez (District8Manny). “Let’s fill this room with guys and make them join the fight, too.”
Rachel Cavazos, a survivor and mother of a victim of domestic abuse who was killed by her husband, speaks to attendees at a conference on community response to domestic violence.Inside the TriPoint Event Center on Tuesday morning, the men at a domestic violence seminar were asked to stand up in a crowd of nearly 100 people. All of them, roughly 20, obliged.
“Real men don’t hit girls or women,” San Antonio City Councilman Manny Pelaez said. “Let’s fill this room with guys and make them join the fight, too.” “They’re afraid of saying the wrong things, of making the wrong recommendations,” she said. “They feel like … should I have a degree in counseling and therapy to do this?”
Rachel Cavazos said she attempted to approach a priest 20 years ago while she was mourning the death of her daughter, Rolanda, who was killed by her husband in a murder-suicide. Cavazos was also experiencing abuse from her husband at the time, she said. “I needed someone to talk to.”Want the news delivered for free every morning?Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
When Blue was asked to pray for a woman last Sunday, she dove deeper and asked her about what was happening in the woman’s life, she said. By the end of the day, the congregant was contacted by a crisis coach and a marriage counselor.‘Bureaucrats making plans?’
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