Wolly B, are you familiar with Patterson's law of social work? "the number of social workers in a community always grows to match the social problems they create".

Posted by imacentristmoderate, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 10:41:38 PM

There is a wonderful book of fiction, written by a SF writer (I can't remember who?).

Basically the book was about a wealthy man who got injured and wound living in an area somewhere similar to the Bronks and how the Social Workers tired to put him into a box that he refused to fit into.

It provided a fascinating insight into S/W's.

It would be good if Jasmin got this published in the Conversation website which is mostly a feminist supported website on sociological subjects.

For too long we have accepted the narrative that only women suffer as victims of domestic violence.

Batty & co have ensured that we continue to proceed in a backward direction. The current politically correct approaches to domestic violence will see more children suffer and more - not less - family dysfunction.

The answer to domestic violence is for both men AND women to learn to deal with each other respectfully.

Rogindon, I would suggest that Rosie Batty is very painfully aware that both males (her son) and children are very much victims of domestic violence...wouldn't you?

She is also painfully aware of people like you trying to lay the blame of the violence displayed by her son's murderer on anyone else rather than his disgusting father.

This was no myth....it was a reality.

Suseonline, 1, you already know that mothers do this at over double the rate fathers do.
2, you already know that the poor man was suffering from battered spouse syndrome.
3, why are you so determined to get children abused & killed?

\< her son's murderer on anyone else rather than his disgusting father.>

This was no myth....it was a reality.
<Posted by Suseonline, Thursday, 5 November 2015 9:12:42 PM>

It would appear that Greg Anderson may have had undiagnosed mental illness. If it wasn't a mental illness then it could have possibly been a psychological disorder.

<A former housemate told the Herald Sun Anderson earned the nicknames Obnoxious
<and NQR (Not Quite Right) because of his BIZARRE behaviour.

Yes what Greg Anderson did, defies belief, it also defies belief that mothers who neglect their children and cause their deaths, are almost invisible perpetrators in the media and DV advocates.

Of course I have heard of mothers killing their own children, and yes the death of any child, caused by anyone, is horrendous. I have never said anything otherwise.

What I don't like is the current push by some people to explain away Anderson's dreadful actions by any means possible. Why?
He may well have had a mental illness, but not all people with mental illnesses have the urge to kill their son with a baseball bat and a knife, and not all murderers have a mental illness.

I think the push by some people to explain Anderson's actions is because they don't like Rosie Batty refusing to go away. They don't like a woman daring to fight the current ineffective domestic violence actions.
They don't like all the attention she is getting, when they are getting nothing at all....