"...real men don’t hit women, real men help those in need.” Amen!

Also in the comments was something I'd never thought about...donating pads & tampons to women's shelters. I make regular monetary donations to the local women's shelter, but I certainly can buy extra pads & tampkns to give too.

going through shelters will be depending on food stamps which don't cover such supplies, or otc medicines, laundry detergents, etc. These are very costly items.

psychologically abused him to the point he almost committed suicide twice. My brother is severe bi-polar, Asperger's and suffers from acute schizophrenia. Everything between them was great before the marriage, but she changed. . .up to including eventually abandoning him denying him the ability to see the children for over 14 months.

"real mean don't hit women. . ." The case is reversed in my brothers. . .why the "do you still beat your wife" ideas?

Most spousal abuse is from perfectly sane men. I don't see the similarity.

My sister is bi-polar and she really damaged her children. But in the end she's mentally ill.

Kind of distracted me. Apologies. This is about my brother. My mother is a stepford wife to a beast of a man who beat and brow-beat his two children until the oldest (me) punched him out and the youngest cut him out of the grandchildren's lives.