impact
  • Home
    • About impact >
      • impact in a nutshell >
        • impact's origin story >
          • bio: Kathy Kaplan OAM
        • What else does impact do? >
          • Advocacy & awareness raising
          • Interest-free loans
          • Grants to Refuges
          • Bursaries
          • impactFUL launch party
          • Childcare at Moorabbin Court
      • Our Board >
        • Our vision, mission & values
        • Our policies >
          • Constitution
          • COVID-SAFE measures
          • Acknowledgement of Country
          • Privacy Policy
          • Inclusion Policy
          • Volunteer Policy
          • Child Safety Policy
        • AGM 2022
        • Last year's achievements
        • Board Only Section
    • What is Family Violence?
    • Myth Busting
    • Upcoming events
  • Ways to Help
    • How YOU can help
    • Messages of Hope
    • Donate your dollars
    • Donate your time, effort & skills
    • Bags of Love >
      • Bags of Love - how to help
      • Bags of Love - what to give
    • Trees of Love
    • Court Childcare Project
    • Give them a meal
    • Purses with Purpose
    • Become a sponsor >
      • Sponsor financially
      • Sponsor in kind
  • Get help
    • if your friend needs help
    • Who you can turn to
    • Create a safety plan
    • Tips to help a friend >
      • Helpful things to say, ask or do
      • Things NOT to say, ask or do
    • Tips for youth
    • Tips for male victims
    • Tips for LGBTIQ victims
    • Tips for older people
    • Tips if you witness violence
    • Stay safe online >
      • Conduct an online safety audit
      • Create a strong password
      • Mobile phone safety
      • Computer & internet safety
      • Online banking safety
      • Clear your devices' history
      • Disable tracking devices
  • Get involved
    • Become a Member
    • Volunteer >
      • Coffee Lunch & Craft Group
  • Facts & Stats
    • What is Family Violence?
    • Australia's great shame: the facts >
      • Australia's death toll: 2022
      • Australia's death toll: 2021
      • Australia's death toll: 2020
      • Australia's death toll: 2019
      • Australia's death toll: 2018
    • Cycle of Abuse
    • Warning signs
    • Gaslighting
    • Royal Commission into Family Violence
    • National Community Attitudes Survey
  • Articles, Blogs & Personal Stories
    • News Articles & Blogs
    • Personal Stories
  • Contact us
  • xmas 2020 video
  • Annual Report 2022
  • W&P video 2022
  • PJV chanukah 2006

Are there? Really?

13/9/2018

 
Picture
This letter was to an American paper complaining that there had been five articles published about domestic violence over two days. In that same two days, there had been 69,120 victims of domestic violence.

Similar complaints are heard here in Australia.


In a perfect world, there should be an article for EVERY victim.

Domestic violence is still stigmatised making it difficult for victims to speak up. Victim blaming is a national sport: 'If things were that bad, why didn’t you leave?' or, even this week, regarding the mass murder of 2 women and 3 little girls in WA, people are blaming Mara Harvey, the mum, for their death because she was significantly older than her husband, the alleged perpetrator of the murders. 'She groomed him as a teenager, controlled him and then threatened him with never seeing the children and taking all his money through child support', they claim making her responsible for her own death as well as that of her mother and her three daughters. 

When victims do share their stories, they often are discounted because an abuser’s public mask is in direct contrast with what goes on at home.

Reading articles in the paper about domestic violence is unpleasant but the truth is that domestic violence itself is a real issue in our society and it is MORE than unpleasant.

Not only should these stories be printed, there should be more of them. And here I'd like to mention Sherele Moody of The Red Heart Campaign who is undertaking the horrendous and humungous task of trying to write the story for each victim who does not survive and for mapping all the killings on the Australian Femicide Map.

Perhaps, if the issue of domestic violence were brought further into the light, we could reach a point where homes everywhere would be safe for everyone!


Read the original article here.


Comments are closed.

    Archives

    September 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016

EVERY DOLLAR MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Picture


impact acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as the First Peoples of Australia, the traditional owners of the lands and waters throughout Australia: lands and waters which have never been ceded.
​We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community and we pay our respects to their peoples, their cultures, their languages and to their elders past, present and emerging.

​
View impact's Privacy Policy here

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture


​impact is very proud to call the following organisations our key partners:
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
ABN: 17 159 728 753
PO BOX 217 GLEN HUNTLY 3163

Copyright © 2022