This month is both National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. With organizations like Avon sponsoring fundraisers and Major League Baseball commemorating the fight against breast cancer with pink bats (among other efforts), awareness is growing for this major threat against our women. As a forty-something adult, I have known of too many cases in my sphere of friends and family who have suffered from this kind of cancer and I urge the men out their to help their women get regular breast exams because early detection is so important.

On the domestic violence front, this is an area in which men are much more likely to be the aggressors. Our women and children fall victim to what can often be the result of men not getting the help they need to stop the violence. Please take a look at a past article on this issue, called “Being a Man Means Stopping Domestic Violence.” Not that most of us need a special month to be reminded, but this is certainly a period of time to do what we can to show our women respect, love, and support.