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"For the first time since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act is no more. It was approved by the Senate in April but now House GOP have blocked the bill.
Proponents of the law hope to revive the law in the new Congress, starting from scratch, but in the meantime, there will be far fewer resources available for state and local governments to combat domestic violence."
"For the first time since 1994, the Violence Against Women Act is no more. It was approved by the Senate in April but now House GOP have blocked the bill.
Proponents of the law hope to revive the law in the new Congress, starting from scratch, but in the meantime, there will be far fewer resources available for state and local governments to combat domestic violence."
The Violence Against Women Act should be called the Violence Against Families Act.
There are already laws written criminalizing violence against ANYBODY. What this act does is prop up people with jobs who just focus on violence against women, and encourage women to report their spouses.
Let's be realistic, in a relationship with 2 people, violence is going to occur at some point. In most cases, the vast majority of cases, the family can survive and get past it. But what such an act does and has people meddle and manipulate a woman at her weakest having her do thing's not in her long term interest. Let the act die for all anyone should care.
Anyone who knows women, knows they will go straight to the police if they feel their life is in danger, especially if their kids' life is in danger. But getting slapped once during a heated argument? We don't need police, or these people involved in those cases. That's people being imperfect.
Democrats invent laws like this which appeal to people's emotions. I mean, who the heck can oppose a law called The Violence Against Women Act? They then add men, illegal immigrants, and Native Americans without a debate on how this law is going to protect them or the people they accuse.
domestic violence in this country is 50/50. they found after the domestic violence law that too many women were being sent to jail. it was intended to be a anti male violence law, did not work that way. we do things different in america, guys are not necessarily the dominate figure in the home.
Your posts just prove that more education about domestic violence is needed.
It's clear that people don't understand what domestic violence is. It is about abuse: physical, verbal, mental, emotional, psychological, and THREATS, all of which men and women and CHILDREN are subjected to by abusers - both men and women.
My daughter lived with an abuser. I didn't know what was going on for a long time. What stopped her from telling anyone or from leaving was that he threatened to kill me and my mother (her grandmother). He moved her to another state and when he was put in the hospital from a severe beating by the local rednecks in a bar brawl, she fled and lived in fear.
People don't understand the scars that are left from being abused. The fear, no self-esteem, no confidence, depression, and a host of other issues that require professional help is provided by the many agencies available for victims of DV. They shelter women, provide training so that they can become self-sufficient, they help find them homes. The majority of women of DV have children who also need professional help.
Gay men are more willing to seek help than hetro men who are victims of DV. In 2008 3 out of 10 men suffered from DV. More than likely the number is the same today, if not higher.
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