Domestic violence affects an estimated 4 million women each year.
While Treadway’s story has a happy ending, many others aren’t so lucky. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1 in 3 women (and 1 in 4 men) have been the victim of physical violence at the hands of a current or former intimate partner.
Treadway’s story brings to mind a chilling anti-domestic violence PSA that ran during this year’s Super Bowl.
The PSA features a woman on the phone with police, but acting as though she’s ordering a pizza.