Victims of domestic violence ‘need immediate protection’

Monica Borg

Dec 29th 2010, 14:10

Saving face is too important in our community to admit there's a problem, but it's obvious.
Women are suffering in isolation because their society is isolating them. They always try to show how happy we are at home. Society needs to know that it was happening 100 years ago, but in the 21st century we are not going to take it. Abuse is abuse. Many women are afraid to complain. "Once you come out in society and complain about sexual harassment or abuse, police and the neighbors see you differently. You are not a victim, but they will victimize you more."
We will lose other women in the future from the hands of their partners. The target audience is people bringing up young kids.

Karl Consiglio

Dec 28th 2010, 19:15

They ought to be nicer to their husbands first , show more respect!

Monica Borg

Dec 28th 2010, 19:12

Preventing domestic violence is key here. We need to start educating children from a young age that violence is not the answer to resolving problems. At the same time, as adults we need to practice what we preach in both our personal lives as well as professional and political!
That means we do not condone, promote or minimize violence. If we truly took an objective look at all the ways most of us participate in violence in our daily lives, we would see that much of what we do, think, and say send the message to kids that violence is the answer.
We need to begin at a grass-roots level in education and work from the ground up. Anything else is simply a band-aid after the fact.

Michael Grech

Dec 28th 2010, 18:27

Four Square with the organisers of the march. I am very disappointed that only four readers commented the article (and unfortunately one did so in a very idiotic manner!). Had the article been about the usual trifle (parish feasts, eurovision, etc.),we would have had scores of comments.

James A. Tyrrell

Dec 28th 2010, 13:44

@EDWIN DE MARCO. The problem is not that the figures of domestic violence have been purposely inflated and to say so is stupid. The problem is that for too long domestic violence has been ignored. In the rare cases where the victim actually reported the matter to the police the word of the husband was considered more important than the word of the woman, and the 'little woman' was told to go home and everything would be okay in the morning.

Domestic violence is a fact, not just in Malta, and needs to be dealt with seriously. That will not happen if people like you continue with their head in the sand attitude towards it.

EDWIN DE MARCO

Dec 28th 2010, 10:07

Just yesterday I heard on TVM that one out of four women - married or not - are victims of domestic violence. Let's say there are a 100,000 women, not forgetting men, another 90,000. That leaves us with 40,000 women & a smaller percentage of men (say 1%) victims of domestic violence, who then would be 9,000. 49,000 in all, females & males. Another 60,000 are on the verge of poverty. That adds up to 109,000. Pensioners are another 60,000. That totals 169,000, excluding children who must be around 250,000. That gives us 419,000. The remaining are a number (not all) of illegal hunters, a few rude bus drivers,criminals, etc. Unbelievingly this leaves only about a hundred persons who are not verging on the line of poverty, never got domestically assaulted ( better than savagely assaulted), never been mugged for cash as they use plastic money, etc. Seriously, I think the figures of domestic violence have been purposely inflated...could it be a plan to overthrow the present government?I'm fed up of local news bulletins filled with non-sensical statistics which are never proven. YES, I COULD SWITCH TO RAI & that's what I'm doing in fact. Malta qeghda f'salib it-toroq! Hogwash!