Obviously I am but I have to ask. There might be a few Carnegie altruistic types lurking.
I am part of a support group for women who have left or trying to leave abusive relationships. It's a subject very close to my heart. I successfully left mine and manage ok.
These women are doing their very very best but they are being stretched to breaking point. One is at the mercy of her DC's father calling the shots (he earns all the money), another is coping with a large family and a very stressful job.
We are not stupid. We have tried offering suggestions, workable solutions. There is nothing to be done but try to manage the situation and the daily abuse.
I know, I know I've got a fucking cheek asking in this climate when so many are struggling. But most families work together right? Offering, at the very least sympathy/empathy if not practical and/or financial support. These women have us but it's not enough. Any benefit or emotional respite we offer is almost instantly negated by continued pressure from partners/exes and toxic parents.
So what would throwing money at the problem achieve? Quite a lot really. These women could leave and move somewhere else (as one of them is trying to do) , or take a few months out to deal with the considerable trauma without the stress of work/childcare issues.
These are women who have been abused since childhood and whose efforts to deal with the fallout while trying to hold a family together and fending off an abusive partner or unsympathetic employer is edging nearer and nearer to catastrophe every day.
So there go you go. Feel free to pile in and flame me. I had to do something other than sit back and offer platitudes. Im going to be a trustee for a charitable trust that is being set up to offer community support in general, but that will take months and this is obviously more specific.