We are a throwaway society. For many children, she says, it's easier to find drugs than hugs.
Elders calls domestic violence the most common crime in America.
Thirty percent of all emergency-room visits are by women who are abused. Yet doctors recognize the abuse only 6 percent of the time. She estimates that 26 percent of women and 16 percent of boys in America have been sexually abused. Ironically, she never went to a doctor until her first year in college. Her main goal is to ensure that every child is planned and wanted.