Battered woman’s husband ‘too drunk’ to recall anything

A Attard

Jan 3rd 2011, 15:38

And yet many people still believe that domestic abuse is provoked. Sure! You see it every day, these women who grab their husbands and force alcohol down their throat so that they make them drunk, aggressive and mean. And how about those other women who weave their wily spells to make their husband's favourite football team lose the game so that their husbands, whom these same women have been forcefully gorging with alcohol, should become resentful, belligerent and aggressive and take it out on them? Not to mention those other witches who, upon returning home from Mass, grab their husband by the throat and force him to unleash a string of obscene blasphemy right in front of their young children so that their sons should grow up to be like their father! Yeah, domestic violence is provoked!!!!

M. Tabone

Jan 3rd 2011, 11:36

What I would like to know is this: who has to leave the home in cases of domestic violence? The victim or the perpetrator? I would like to suggest that the one who has to leave is the perpetrator and not the victim. Some women who have been abused have to escape sometimes with the children in tow to seek shelter elsewhere. I would like to suggest that in such cases the perpetrator - whether husband or wife - is made to leave the home as soon as possible and not the victim. Steps should then be taken to assure that the perpetrator does not approach the victim or the home. Surely this is more just. The victim would already have suffered the trauma of the abuse. Why should she /he be made to suffer even more? Besides this the children would have to get used to another place of residence, new friends, new school and so much more - especially having to share the shelter with others who have undergone the same experience and who would continually talk about their experiences! Definitely not a healthy environment! Talk about readjusting!