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Originally Posted by Mack184
When you speak about "education" are you talking about educating the victims about services that are available to help them or about educating the cowardly brutes who beat their spouses?
If you are talking about the victims I am with you 100%. If you are talking about the cowards who beat their wives, the only "education" they need is to spend some long hard time in the slammer. They already know that what they are doing is wrong. They prosper only because they are allowed to get away with it.
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It is not that simplistic. A battered woman/man/child might strike back at the tormentor, then you have problems with the legal system on defining just who the "victim" is. Often, batterers are the victims of violence from their parents and/or other relatives. These people often have a lot of mental health issues to deal with as well--depression, alcoholism, drug abuse of various kinds, etc. By "these people" I mean those caught up in the cycle of violence.
http://www.ncdsv.org/images/MCBW_Und...nWhoBatter.pdf
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence http://www.ncdsv.org/ncd_newscover.html