Idea For A New Religion - Chapter 13 - Domestic Violence

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1) If domestic violence is occuring within a community then the community has a duty to know about it and take action to help the victim. 2) The community must provide physical protection, comfort, care, support, refuge and whatever else the victims of domestic violence need. 3) The community must be helpful and cooperative to the police and legal services in their investigation of domestic violence and the prosecution of its perpetrators. 4) Community members who are guilty of committing acts of domestic violence must undergo rigorous psychological treatment and must not be trusted by the community until they have proven, over the course of several years, that they are no longer violent. 5) Funding must be given to research into the cause, prevention and solution to domestic violence. 6) Domestic violence is a legitimate grounds for divorce and those who have committed domestic violence could be penalized by being forced to pay for the therapeutic treatment of their ex-spouse or partner so that they contribute something to the healing process.