Many of the women in our community don't even understand what their rights are or how to protect themselves. Very often, they're in these very unhealthy, codependent-type relationships. They start protecting the perpetrator rather than protecting themselves. Sometimes it means the loss of their children to child welfare systems.
It's an ongoing cycle when they're in the throes of these. It's really important for them, even at young years; let's start teaching our young people what things like gender-based violence and coercive control really are.