Brendan O'Neill rightly notes that " important influences (substance abuse, mental illness, ethnicity, and broad societal attitudes to violence) get very little attention in the report despite being avenues that could usefully have been pursued to reduce violence levels." Broad societal attitudes, especially those of the young, can be strongly influenced by the media content they're exposed to every and all day. If that content constantly glamorises the use of violence (it works and it wins), it raises the risk (even later in life) that aggression will be used to solve conflict. Such exposure is not the main cause of the violence used in domestic settings, and nor is it the least, but it is one we could do something about.

Taken directly from the Report
"The terms of reference do not require the Commission to determine why family violence occurs but,
by way of background, they do set out important factors that are relevant:
The causes of family violence are complex and include gender inequality and community
attitudes towards women. Contributing factors may include financial pressures, alcohol
and drug abuse, mental illness and social and economic exclusion."

One would have thought that determining the cause of family violence would have been the primary aim of spending all the time and money. There must be a lot of disappointed people out there. Addressing those causes would go a long way towards reducing the problem at its source instead of reacting to the situation after it has happened.

David

 

" Despite all the money being thrown at this problem,it can be expected to have very little effect in actually reducing domestic violence levels."

The socialists never learn. They continually want to spend money they don't have despite the huge sums that they spent in the past, which have proved ineffectual. Socialists must be the only people not wired to learn from their mistakes. Neither money, nor any other government waste and meddling, will make any difference to domestice violence, which obviously occurs at home. Unless this crime is reported, the perpetrator is arrested, charged and dealt with as with any other crime,nothing can be done. If the victim is not prepared to report the assault, that will not happen. Tut tutting and wasting borrowed money will merely burden us with more useless public servants.

"The feminist line is embedded right through the report and includes the usual redefining of the English language, starting with the sisterhood's own definition of "violence"."

Feminists are amateur politicians with an axe to grind against men in general. They don't have the guts to take on Muslim men with their institualised violence against Muslim women and female white non-Muslim rape victims; and they are not rational enough to help other women, who they generally ignore or look down on. The fact thay they think that they can change the definition of violence, in itself, means they have nothing to contribute. Their "causes of family violence are complex and include gender inequality and community attitudes towards women" is absurd. The 'community' is at least half women, but the femistas struggle to reruit more than a very small percentage of them.

The only people can stop violence are the victims who,must report assaults to ensure the punishment of their tormentors.

I don't believe anyone can dress up domestic violence and present it as a socialist or feminazi agenda, or propaganda.

Simply put, only annus phincters of the first water or knuckle dragging nethrendals, lower than a snake's belly, try to justify it, or try and turn any halfway decent response to it into a waste of taxpayer resources.

Yes, I have heard of domestic violence perpetrated on blokes. And some ladies just can't stop themselves and their viperish never happy tongues?

And should that be the case any man would walk!

That said, if there are issues, real men don't need to resort to their fists to solve it, nor try and morally blackmail a partner via financial control.

Simply put, and given unresolvable conflict, if you love it let it go if it comes back to you it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was!

Other than that, "men" who get their jollies beating on their partners, their kids, their pets, deserve a high velocity projectile between the eyes, except that'd be to good and too easy!
Rhrosty.

    

 

Rhrosty,

 

"I don't believe anyone can dress up domestic violence and present it as a socialist or feminazi agenda, or propaganda."

I don't believe anyone has suggested such a stupid thing. That idea comes from your own mind and overall lack of cognition. Your stupidity is becoming very tiring, as is your language: " only annus phincters of the first water or knuckle dragging nethrendals.." as a description of people you don't agree with (mainly because you can't understand what they are saying) is low-class and ignorant enough; but you can't even spell. It is: anus, not 'annus', sphincter, not 'phincter', and Neanderthal, not 'nethrendal'. Not satisfied with being a nasty name-caller, you also spell worse than a Neanderthal - and they didn't spell, read or write.

"...lower than a snake's belly, try to justify it, or try and turn any halfway decent response to it into a waste of taxpayer resources."

What? Throwing money at a problem that can be solved by individuals, using perfectly adequate laws, is not a waste of taxpayers' money? You are inummerate as well as illiterate.

You are also a hypocrite who claims to be horrified by violence, but who thinks the best cure for the perpetrators of violence is "... a high velocity projectile between the eyes...". The whys and wherefores don't matter to you, just kill 'em.

   

Dv is a problem that has only ever increased under socialist dogma. Parents who have swallowed the idiotic Spock dogmas are now seeing the young brats of kids many of them have created. Teenagers are taught they can have as many relationships as they want with no consequences. Now the more money socialist throw at issues the worse they have become. Look at the billions they have poured into squalors for aboriginals producing more dv, rape, child abuse and hopelessness. The more secular we become the more irrational and rotten fruit. As for encouraging the 'gay' lifestyle where dv is rampant! No solutions will be reached with so many in denial of causes.