Across the world, women face incredible, debilitating, murderous violence because they have failed to adequately "please or obey" the men in their lives.
By pinning their troubles on a lack of effort or interest, school officials ignore the debilitating effect that violence and other trauma has on a student's ability to learn.
It brutalized blacks, subjecting them to debilitating, murderous violence; to rape; to the splitting up of families (another crime against nature); to denying them education and self-improvement; and to the exploitation of their labor and denying them access to their natural right to property.
Married off when she was 13 to a man she discovered later was a drug addict, she struggled with violence and debilitating poverty, working 16-hour days at a brick kiln to support her family as her husband sold off the family possessions.
Sixteen years of experience has shown us that violence is debilitating not only to women who are victims but also to larger communities and economies.
Indeed, Indonesia faces enormous problems -- economic collapse, political turmoil, social instability, debilitating corruption and, yes, widespread violence and local wars.
"The irony," Bratton told the LA Times in an exit interview, "is that we know... how we can get to the point where gang crime and violence would no longer be debilitating to this city".
"Real pain and violence is associated with serious, sometimes debilitating mental disease," he explains.
Families often facing serious danger including not only the violence from the Assad regime and certain rebel factions, but also starvation, dehydration, and debilitating economic conditions.
Violence against women is a global epidemic affecting millions of women daily that presents debilitating obstacles to the development of women, their families and communities, and even their national economies.
