Violence is a devastatingly routine part of life for a major segment of the population
In countries with pronounced wealth inequality such as ours, initial conditions are highly predictive in determining an individual’s lot.
The wrong men, it turns out, are all over the place. Not the clichéd man who stacks the dishwasher badly, but the sort of man who assaults or rapes you in your own home. The sort of person who hurts children.Dancing with the Stars: a dark and stormy end for meteorologist Joanna Donnelly as she loses dance-offreports of domestic violence were logged during Christmas week in this country.
Childhood exposure to domestic violence can lead to chilling outcomes in later life. Stock photograph More and better refuge spaces are sorely needed. Support to cope and recover is also necessary in the medium and longer-term There’s a tendency to regard domestic violence as a terrible aberration, a kind of phantom horror at a complete, pathological remove from normal mechanisms of policy and governance. This persists despite the reality that everyone knows someone going through it, even if they do not know they do. In all likelihood, everyone knows someone perpetrating it.
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