Thanksgiving Day = Orange Day

This year, Thanksgiving Day is also Orange Day. In your thankfulness, remember those females suffering from exploitation. Domestic violence has resulted in a 30% increase in child deaths since the pandemic. Even before COVID-19, 38% of children lived in homes where one parent abused the other. Real life stories include the mother repeatedly beaten until she fled with her children and yet fears her husband will kill her as he has weekend custody; the man who hears the screams of his mother as his father pounds her against a bedroom wall; and the woman beaten, stabbed, shot and left to die on Harrisburg street.

If you know of someone who is abused, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or TTY 800-787-3224 for help. Wear orange or an orange ribbon on Nov 25 to show thankfulness for those working to end the exploitation of females.