Roy Cooper has declared October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in North Carolina. To bring attention to this national issue, the state encourages everyone to wear purple on October 20th to help spread awareness. More than 12 million women and men living in the U.S. experience some form of abuse by an intimate partner over the course of a single year according to estimates by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. You can follow WSIC on social media at wsicnews.com
