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Why has the state government ignored key recommendation from own DV taskforce? : Comments
By Cassandra Pullos, published 17/2/2017Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's reported remarks urging parties demanding new measures for DV offenders to first discuss the issue, seems to ignore her Government's own DV taskforce recommendations of 2015.
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The statistics (depending on what you read and who is doing the research) are that one in three women will experience some form of gender violence over the course of their lifetime. This does not translate to one in three marriages being violent. The figure is probably more like 5-10% for female DV victims and maybe 1-2% for male DV victims. Maybe these figures could be higher, but overall they are still a lot lower than 33%.
Also, people DO put themselves in positions that leave them at risk of being murdered or robbed. A lot of young men go out on the town in packs and get blind drunk, which often leads to violence. A lot of people get mixed up in organised crime, which increases their odds of being murdered in gang wars. A lot of people strive to build wealth and live lifestyles that show off their wealth. A lot of people travel to poor countries, where their wealth makes them targets for robbery.
The law makes no concessions to the perpetrators. Murder is murder. Theft is theft. Rarely is the victim put on trial.
And to go slightly off topic ... yes, there is an overwhelming tendency for the culture to keep reinforcing the trope that women need romance and marriage (much less now than in previous generations). But if most women were allowed to be honest in all of this cultural brainwashing, the truth is that they marry for all the same reasons that men do - social acceptance, regular sex, mutual child-rearing and a best friend for life.
For every societal warning to women that their man of choice may turn out to be a wife-basher, there are just as many (or more) societal warnings to men that the woman of their choice may turn out to be an emasculating ball-breaker. But they still marry.
loudmouth
Although the second half of your comment went off into some la-la scenarios, I totally agree with your first three paragraphs.