Category: Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence

Anglican church must rethink doctrine that has left a trail of devastated lives

Illustration: Simon Letch

We have a long way to go before our churches have any hope of being safe places for victims and survivors of family violence. A willingness to listen to survivors and to take seriously our pleas to the church to reconsider the headship/submission doctrine is a necessary beginning, but by no means the end. Until we see meaningful progress on this basic level, there is little hope we will see the structural, cultural and systemic changes that are so desperately needed.

Source: Anglican church must rethink doctrine that has left a trail of devastated lives

Domestic Violence, Violence

Does the US Have a Culture of Violence? Not the United States of Women | The Smirking Chimp

To repeat, when it comes to cultures, the US has lots. We’ve simply allowed, until recently, a bunch of white western guys, rooted in one particularly patriarchal, white, hierarchical and militaristic set of values to write and enforce their own rules. That said, segregation, spousal rape, white crime on indigenous land, anti-LGBT hate crimes and domestic child abuse were all legal until very recently. The white, male, militarist culture of violence isn’t inevitable. It’s a societal choice. Let’s switch.

Does the US Have a Culture of Violence? Not the United States of Women | The Smirking Chimp
Domestic Violence, Uncategorized

‘Their cross to bear’: The Catholic women told to forgive domestic violence – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

Andrew Bolt’s Christianity taught indigenous women to grin and bear it

via ‘Their cross to bear’: The Catholic women told to forgive domestic violence – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Domestic Violence

Male Partners Behind a Third of all Women Murdered in America AnonHQ

One third of all female homicide victims in the United States are killed by their husbands and ex-husbands, boyfriends and estranged lovers. The further South couples live, the more likely women are to be victims of domestic violence, a study has revealed. Horrifying truth about …

Source: Male Partners Behind a Third of all Women Murdered in America AnonHQ

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The dirty secret of our criminal justice system

A scene outside the royal commission in Ballarat as Gerald Ridsdale gave evidence via video link from his prison cell.

The dirty secret of our criminal justice system.

Domestic Violence

Waleed Aly says “Show Me The Money to end Domestic Violence”

Domestic Violence

Destroy the Joint

The Prime Minister today announced that both Australian of the Year Rosie Batty and former Victorian Police Commissioner Ken Lay are to be on a panel about domestic violence. He also announced that domestic violence would be on the COAG agenda.Earlier this week, Michaelia Cash said the government was 110 per cent committed to stopping violence against women.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/minister-downplays-idea-of-national-royal-commission-into-domestic-violence-20150127-12yyqq.html

But Destroyers, why won’t the Prime Minister reverse the cuts to counselling, advocacy and family violence prevention programs?
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/abbott-governments-cuts-threaten-to-trap-women-in-domestic-violence-20150128-12zzmr.html

Domestic Violence, gun laws

Australia a ‘nation of victims’, deadly Sydney siege unlikely in Texas, says pro-gun senator Leyonhjelm – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

It’s the very reason the US  gun crimes  rate X6  higher than Australia . Why on earth would we want guns more accessible to everybody? Which really means more accessible to men. We are ranked 41 in the world while the US is No 1 are we that ambitious ?

 

Australia a ‘nation of victims’, deadly Sydney siege unlikely in Texas, says pro-gun senator Leyonhjelm – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).