It's too late for us, but it is not too late for other women and children who are experiencing abuse.

Police need to understand that abused women will have contact with their partners out of fear. They should not insist on proof that is impossible to provide. It's too late for us, but it's not too late for other women and children who are experiencing abuse.

She was told nothing can be done because she still had contact with him.

Our goal is to break the cycle of abuse and help these women and their children learn to function and be self-reliant,

Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children... when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

This is an area of great abuse where you have the absurd situation of small children supposedly contributing their own money to a candidate of their own choice. Obviously, in many cases, what's going on is simply a way for the parents to beat the contribution limits.