12/1: Thank you all – $445 was collected. We will be matching that amount and sending a copy of the receipt to those that donated. Total raised is $990!
It’s that time of year when you just can’t help but give thanks for all that you have and to give to those who need a helping hand. We at IHB would like to say thank you to our loyal readers by matching your charitable contributions to Laura’s House (up to a total of $1000).
Since 1994, Laura’s House has offered unduplicated domestic violence-related services to the residents of Orange County and beyond. It continues to be the only state-approved comprehensive domestic violence agency in South Orange County. Annually, Laura's House provides residential shelter services, counseling and legal services to hundreds of women and children. Thousands of crisis calls come in each year on their Crisis Hotline. Laura’s House’s target population is families experiencing the effects of domestic violence in need of emergency shelter, support, education and counseling. Their goal is to provide supportive service programs that will prepare clients and their children to live independent and violence free lives.
To participate, all you have to do is:
1. Make a contribution by visiting http://www.laurashouse.org/
2. Forward your emailed receipt to sales@idealhomebrokers.com
That’s it! We’ll track how much has been raised in the sidebar to the right and at the end of the month, we’ll match that total (up to $1000).
Thank you for your generosity and for making the IHB community what it is today.
That’s very honorable. I can’t believe that nobody comments on this.
We’ve just received the first donation receipt and I’ve updated the sidebar. I’m sure we’ll see more soon.
IR, I know you’re trying to do a good thing here and I wouldn’t cast aspersions on your motives.
But don’t you think women who pass up the “boring nice guys” and allow themselves to get involved with abusers are asking for it?
This holiday season I know I’ll be donating to people who aren’t responsible for their own predicaments.
When I was growing up, my father worked in social services for about eight years. My father was one of the few men who knew where the local safe house was. Most of the women who go to places like this live under constant threat and fear. Whatever their motivations to entering into a relationship, many don’t feel they have the freedom to leave without risking getting the crap beat out of them or worse. I don’t believe any of them “ask for it.”
The story speaks for itself to refute you
Police: Husband shot estranged wife
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-304802-irvine-one.html
Ex to slain wife: ‘Your payback will come’
Before she was killed outside her Irvine job, Alejandra Hernandez had asked for restraining orders against her husband, who she claimed was becoming more aggressive.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hernandez-304934-agosta-court.html
The article doesn’t say that John Rand Agosta was ever a “boring nice guy.”
On the contrary: it is more likely that his edgy, violent streak is precisely why the murder victim was attracted to him.
That is her prerogative, of course, but it’s also my right to refuse to subsidize bad decisions just like hers. The concept of “moral hazard” doesn’t just apply to Wall Street.
With only $195 collected in nearly a month (under $8/day, less than your HOA payment), it seems like my fellow IHB readers have also noticed the parallels between “abused women” and housing bubble participants. Neither of whom deserve MY financial support for problems created by THEIR own poor decisions.
Do you disagree, Mr. Anonymous?
@Bill: Man, you’re a grouch and curmudgeon of the first order. Of course it’s your prerogative to support charities of your own choosing, but there isn’t any call to lambaste people in need, especially in this forum. And to assume they would be living happily ever after if they had chosen “nice, boring guys” is simplistic. I’m not sure if you class yourself among the “nice, boring guys” you seem to be heavily touting, but give it a rest (incidentally, you don’t seem all that nice). In my experience (NOT as a psychotherapist, I might add – simply an observer of life and people), there are lots of “nice, boring guys” who are manipulative, controlling, passive aggressive, and have jealousy issues in relationships (not to mention superiority complexes and tendencies to be snarkily sarcastic). The “boring” part is just an added drag at the end of a day. Go IR!!!