Violence is both insidious and deadly in our society. Some of us live with it, even daily. For others it glares though headlines. Or it blind-sides us when we are least expecting.
We think that violence – how it happens, how it affects us and how we can stop it – deserves a closer look. Over the coming months, the ECM Editorial Board will delve into a number of problems related to violence.
From birth through death, no stage of our lives is immune to it.
Over the past year, heartbreaking examples of fatal child abuse have pushed to the forefront how government agencies handle abuse and allegations. The issue came front and center after 4-year-old Eric Dean, a Pope County boy, was killed by his stepmother. More than 15 reports of abuse involving this child had been reported to the county before he died.
[For more of this story go to http://erstarnews.com/2015/04/...ence-in-our-society/]
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