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You and I have heard stories of domestic violence. What have we done about it ?
Are we concerned? Do we have a batterer intervention program in place? Where can the victims go? To the police, the hospital, the community clinic, the office human resources department, The Haven for Women, our relatives, our friends, the barangay and or the courts. Possibly to a doctor, a psychologist or a lawyer may be approached.
In the Philippines, within the last year, the courts and the barangay have helped enforce the protective order directed against the batterer not to come close to his or her victim, otherwise the batterer goes to jail, under Republic Act 9262.
In the Minnesota experiment, it is shown that arresting the batterer is the most effective deterent, then a commitment to a court mandated batterer intervention program lessens the recedivism. In Turkey, there were wives who went on television
exposing the abuse by their spouses (husbands in this instance) and parents. This has
created an uproar in Turkey. In at least two instances the woman who went on television with the expose were subsequently murdered. One was murdered by her own father, as her father resented that he was exposed to have forced her to marry a man not of her choice.
There should be a mandated batterer intervention program in place soon in the Philippines.
The batterers are mostly men. There are some men who are battered. In the US, they comprise at least 5 percent of the victims. A recent statistic shows that 18 percent of relationships in the courtship or getting to know each other stage there is some form of violence or other.
This violence could be verbal, mental, emotional, physical or economic in nature.
Yes lack of support for dependents is economic control.
Seek help if you are one of them, do not allow that ypou be made a punching bag nor wait until you suffer from the battered woman syndrome which is considered a self-defense. Go to your closest Department of Social Welfare office for assistance.
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