Welcome to another week.
Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that she will be looking to create a Domestic Violence and Abuse Act, in order to help victims of domestic abuse who are currently being let down by the legal system.
It is not yet clear what the Act will contain term-wise, whether it will address abuse at the hands of both men and women, and whether evidence gathering and the difficulties surrounding this area will be tackled, however experts will be invited to contribute ideas and suggestions in the near future.
Unusually for a Prime Minister, May has elected to directly oversee the work, which is set to be cross-governmental, though co-ordinated by the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.
So our question this week then, is just this: what would you like the Act to address?
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Fund just one project aimed at first testing domestic violence allegations to check if they are true or false and I’d be happy. Then, just one project aimed at dealing dv against men. Neither seem represented in the 76 groups vying for the money.
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Since men are not allowed to defend themselves and hit back, they should be given full protection as should be for the women. Each side should be investigated. Here in the US, The women automatically right and the man automatically guilty. I have personally known too many male victims of one sided investigation. When the abuser id determined, esp the male Then a major warrant should be issued in the event of threats or agitation to search the man’s residence or the evidence of someone he is staying with, his car if he has one, and it he was very angry made threats, put him in jail till everything is searched and then a chip to monitor his every move. Plenty of abusive women and kids should be given to the father if the mother was the abuser of the hubby. Since he can not hit her, she has to be far more accountable for her lack restraint. Men should easily qualify for welfare so they care fro the kids. The system in the US is very biased. Maybe the UK can improve on that.
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The best thing that could happen for abused women would be for social workers and family court judges to refrain from punishing and abusing them twice by taking away their babies for adoption by strangers.
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Hi Forced Adoption was just about to say exactly that but include fostering in that especially when the parent has taken ‘injunctions.’ been to woman’s aid and child seen no violence to use that against the victim punishes the child too and is counter productive putting parents at serious risk of harm as many do not come forward knowing SS will use it to steal the children. Support those fleeing DV do not treat them like the perpetrators by questioning their mental health instead of the abuser’s where is the common sense?
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That makes perfect sense. Problem is, that the UK government and UK elite and wealthy want all the kids available for themselves. People in the UK have got to wake up to that.
I’ll tell ya a little story. Puritans used to live in jolly old England. But they were forbidden most types of work and it was not easy to exercise one’s own conscience and reasoning when it came to Christianity. Everyone was supposed to join the church of England and obey the clergy, despite hypocrisy.
So the Puritans decided when there was word of colonies being made in the New World that they had nothing to lose and everything to possibly gain. Once established in the New world, after very costly first year there, causing 50% loss of life over the winter, more of those seeking religious freedom decided to take the gamble. Soon this left the UK void of any decent authentic Christians and what remained was very obedient to the worst of vermin and scum at the top.
Now the UK is nothing but bunch of Satanic, child raping, child sacrificing bunch of hideous monsters and that is their good side. Paganism has never had it better in the UK. So at the root of child stealing is a very evil Elite group in power. That is your obstacle. Here in the US, it was far more difficult to steal kids but they still get quite a few. But PizzaGate has really woken up the US. The 2 Hampstead kids in the UK being stolen did nothing to stir the UK. There is the real problem. Its not law but integrity that is missing. The UK chased all decent people away.
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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The Act must be evidence-based and not founded in ideology.
It must examine the real causes of DV – which are many – and not entertain fictions like the patriarchy.
It must be open-minded and willing to explore best practice from around the world.
It must reject models which have long been shown not to work – such as Duluth.
It must be open to input from all stakeholders and not just the usual bunch of women’s campaigners, social workers and lawyers.
It must start with a clean sheet of paper – and even a new, fresh definition of DV, free from dogma.
It will, of course, be none of these things.
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I gather what you are saying is that feminism is the answer. I say that feminism, another word for Marxist Satanism is the problem. there never should have been any allowance for the state to take kids. Kids belong to parents. Leftists love big bully government telling everyone what to do. Even bruises on kids should be no excuse to take kids, much less, possible future emotional harm. The state has determined that possible but not certain emotional harm is a crime. But no crime has been committed and many never be committed and yet that is enough to steal children.
And you, exInjury, likely encourage big abusive government, the favorite tool of the left. In fact, your plea for a clean sheet of paper is the problem. Yo are encouraging even worse abusive power of the state. You chased Christianity, free and independent, right out of the UK and plunged yourselves into ruin. So enjoy the bed you have made and sleep in it.
Patriarchy was a big long running success. then in the 1800s, you wanted Temperance and Emancipation and you got them. Then you wanted freedom to work and to hell with breeding and being able to live on one income of the husband. And you got those. Now your kids are in daycare, crying and miserable because they want to be with their moms and you moms abandoned them, giving the ultra powerful government the excuse to take your kids for the rich perverts.
you hated your children and gave them to child raping Satanists. Way to go, dear. You ladies sure fixed that one but good. you threw your kids away, Who are the real monsters in the UK? I am not sure you ready for the answer. All I know is that big abusive government is NOT the answer. It is the problem, along with many women who do not seem to be able to discern their own best long-term interests.We gave you the vote, and we gave you choice and what have you done with them? You need to do some serious self-examination, before anyone can help you or your kids.
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The major contribution needed is honesty so the verdict can result in justice being done, and being seen to be done. In too many cases, nervousness, fear, anger, frustration and hysteria result in more of the same, so too often corruption and injustice win the day.
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I heartily agree, Maureen. I am going to add one more thing. Fairness and true equality, as compared to the kind that feminists argue for, which is actually blatant partiality shown to women now in hiring, welfare, rights over men, no need for proof of accusations and no possibility of guilt and halos for all females to wear on their heads. they are favored in schools and universities. Equality, that is, where all parties are liable to the same rights and treatment, and accountability. Its very one sided right now.
Anything that varies in the slightest toward one party or another is where it starts to go wrong. Here in the USA, immigrants have far more rights and benefits that natives do, and in fact the natives are forced to pay the benefits that they don’t want to give.. Our society can not continue to endure the extreme out of balance position of the scales of justice. Wither everyone gets the same shot and bears the same responsibility, or soon there will be no society. In Switzerland, any immigrant coming in, must take classes in everything expected of them and no guarantees or welfare. Its sink or swim, No free rides. Kids get and merit free rides, courtesy of the parents. Everyone else must earn his keep and respect.
We have become a world of spoiled, entitled, pampered babies who really should be given a harsh wake up call to how the world use to work and worded better than it does now. We must accept that we are in extreme danger at this point in time. There has never been a time like it. We do it right, together, in total fairness or we all go up in flames. I can not say it any more clearly.
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IMHO it would need to address the impact of emotional abuse in the context of the human condition i.e. Emotional abuse can provoke people to do things entirely alien to their nature & have a lasting impact on mental health.
It must be gender neutral i.e. Men must feel confident that they will not be ignored.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – “But what about men?. Women are just as bad.!”.
Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Homicides*: Sex Differences April 2012 – March 2015 (3 years)- Office for National Statistics.
`Men killed by current or ex-intimate partners are more likely than women to have been killed by someone of the same sex. Of the 60 male victims of intimate partner homicide, 27 (45%) were killed by men, 33 (55%) were killed by women. Of the 243 female victims of intimate partner homicide, 2 (1%) were killed by women, 241 (99%) were killed by men.
Of those killed in the context of intimate partner homicide by someone of the opposite sex, women were 88% (241/274) of victims, men were 12% (33/274), i.e. women are more than 7 times more likely to be killed by a man, than men are by a women in the context of intimate partner homicide.’
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When domestic violence moves into the Family Courts. The situation in America and Australia.
Research and empirical studies.
`Clinical Professor Joan Meier bridges theory and practice in her work on domestic violence, which focuses on courts’ responses to mothers who seek to protect their children from an abusive father, in the context of a custody battle. Courts’ resistance to believing abuse allegations is fuelled in large part by the theory of “parental alienation,” which presumes, with little basis, that such allegations are merely a means of “alienating” children from their noncustodial father.
Meier’s scholarship has focused on deconstructing this theory, through historical and case analyses; her most recent research in progress, seeks to develop an empirical basis for the gender bias critique, through analysis of all published appellate custody decisions involving alienation and abuse claims.”
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Violence against women – World Health Organisation [WHO].
Intimate partner and sexual violence against women
Fact sheet – Updated November 2016
The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”
Intimate partner violence refers to behaviour by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm, including physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling behaviours.
Sexual violence is “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, or other act directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting. It includes rape, defined as the physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration of the vulva or anus with a penis, other body part or object.”
Key facts:
Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – are major public health problems and violations of women’s human rights.
Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
Most of this violence is intimate partner violence. Worldwide, almost one third (30%) of women who have been in a relationship report that they have experienced some form of physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner in their lifetime.
Globally, as many as 38% of murders of women are committed by a male intimate partner.
Violence can negatively affect women’s physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health, and may increase vulnerability to HIV.
Factors associated with increased risk of perpetration of violence include low education, child maltreatment or exposure to violence in the family, harmful use of alcohol, attitudes accepting of violence and gender inequality.
Factors associated with increased risk of experiencing intimate partner and sexual violence include low education, exposure to violence between parents, abuse during childhood, attitudes accepting violence and gender inequality.
There is evidence from high-income settings that school-based programmes may be effective in preventing relationship violence (or dating violence) among young people.
In low-income settings, strategies to increase women’s economic and social empowerment, such as microfinance combined with gender equality training and community-based initiatives that address gender inequality and relationship skills, have shown some effectiveness in reducing intimate partner violence.
Situations of conflict, post conflict and displacement may exacerbate existing violence, such as by intimate partners, and present additional forms of violence against women.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/
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The Atypical Domestic Violence Perpetrator
http://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/
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