Barry Goldstein, author of the book “The Quincy Solution” was the keynote speaker on Sunday at the 21st Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference. He argued that we can “save $500 billion every year by implementing the proven practices of the Quincy Solution.”
“The most dangerous abusers are not necessarily the men that have committed the most severe assaults,” Mr. Goldstein explained. “They’re men that believe that she had no right to leave.” Three quarters of the women murdered by their partners “are killed after she left.”
He said that the custody system is used by these men as a way to punish women for leaving. “The court doesn’t recognize the motivation,” he said.
He argues that often we failed to understand these cases because we have not taken a multidisciplinary approach. He said, “The experts in domestic violence are domestic violence advocates. But too often we have discounted them because they were viewed as biased because they’re always against domestic violence.”
[For more of this story, written by David Greenwald, go to http://www.davisvanguard.org/2...e-domestic-violence/]
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