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Something I Said: Corona Crisis Increasing Domestic Abuse

By DWIGHT HOBBES Remembering: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz didn”™t grant license to physically, emotionally and mentally terrorize, issuing the order to stay home when you don”™t have to be outdoors. Cowards, of course, consider this a gift dropped in their laps and, accordingly, the National Domestic Violence Hotline logged no less than 951 calls for help between March 10 and 24 alone. Close quarters, it goes without saying, contribute to conflict in normal circumstances. People simply get on one another”™s nerves when they”™ve been cooped up too long. Crazy as true love can get, reasonably sane couples manage to drive each other nuts and not come to blows. It”™s not even a strange idea that this widespread disaster might make them all the more mindful of how rare strong, healthy relationship is. It is not, by any means, a time to drag out a knee-jerk think-tank rationalization regularly leaned on to clinically assess [...]