Knowing is half the battle

The Northumberland Domestic Abuse Monitoring Committee is presenting an educational session to help victims of domestic violence navigate the judicial and family court systems.

Representatives from the office of the Crown, police services, probation and parole, victim witness assistance, legal aid and others will discuss the process that takes place once a victim of domestic abuse contacts the police.

Fear of the system can stop victims from reporting abuse, so a workshop to make women understand the judicial and family court system is a great idea.

In Canada, one to two women a week are killed by their current or former partner.

The majority of women murdered by their ex-husbands or boyfriends are killed after they have left him. So women need to know what their legal rights are and what protections and supports are available to them, if they are ever going to be able to leave.   

This free seminar will take place Wednesday, Dec. 10 at the Cobourg Public Library, 200 Ontario St., from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.

For more information or to register contact NDAMC Coordinator Donna Harris at donna-lifewalk@cogeco.ca or call 905-377-8702.

Comments

[Alex S]

I'm not saying that spousal abuse isn't terrible but why are the reversal cases never reported? Why is there no Male Crisis Center? I doubt they'd get much business considering not many men would admit to being beat up by there wives but still, if you look at the numbers it's alarming to see how many men are beaten by their wives... It's even more alarming to guess at how many go unreported.

[Wally Keeler]

Ms O'Meara knows how to put a spin on something. She trots out the alarmist assertion that way back in 2001 "one to two women a week are killed by their current or former partner."

More recently in 2006 in a population of 35 million people there were 78 spousal homocides, of which 56 victims were women.

Here's the good news that Ms O'Meara sweeps under the rug: for the previous five consecutive years, the number of women killed has declined.

Here's the bad news that feminists would prefer that no one knows: the overall number of spousal homocides increased in 2006 because more men were killed by women.

Twelve men were murdered by their women partners in 2005; 21 men were murdered by their women partners in 2006. That's a 75% increase.

BTW, more men commit suicide by several orders of magnitude than do women. Who cares? Feminists? Przt!

[Wally Keeler]

Don Dutton, Psychology Prof @ U of B.C. calculated that 999,992 men and 999,997.7 per million women do NOT kill their spouse. He asserts "that is not a gender issue. If such a minicule group of either gender kills, then something else beside gender must be involved. Government ministries that repeatedly misrepresent domestic violence statistics to perpetuate their existence do no favours to taxpayers, be they male or female."