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Fairhaven, MA 02719-0800

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Dating Violence: Prevention( A new phamphlet you can download and distribute.)

This pamphlet, based on the article above on dating violence by Richard Davis, can be downloaded a Microsoft Word document and you can add your organization's name to it and distribute it. It is free, of course.

Preventing Family Violence (discussion group)

Preventing Family Violence is a discussion group we've created on Yahoo for people who are interested in sharing helpful ideas for preventing family violence. The media and our government mainly place their attention on what happens after violence has occurred and little attention in seeking the strategies and approaches to keep violence from happening.

This Discussion group is to focus on being proactive, not reactive. What ideas, suggestions, possible approaches, even questions do you believe might be of assistance in moving our society forward helping individuals and families cope with this problem? We seem to be stuck in the same place we were in twenty years ago. It is a time for new ideas, for creativity, for radical suggestions! You get the message. We're eager to hear your ideas!

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Also . . .

A Domestic Violence Research Tool

by Richard L. Davis

Unfortunately too many domestic violence agencies, advocates and members of the criminal justice system continue with policies that fail to reflect contemporary knowledge from recent research studies.

The purpose of this paper is to place many of these studies and articles into the hands of those who directly or indirectly affect our public polices concerning domestic violence intervention.


Welcome!

This Web site contains original articles, plus links to other articles and studies, detailing what we think should be done about violence in the family and why. In the column on the left you will find new material, links to other relevant and useful resources, and information on how to contact us.

Family Nonviolence Inc. is a nonprofit, grass-roots organization of volunteers whose goal is to focus on ways to reduce family violence in Massachusetts, who believe that change is necessary because . . . for more details why, please click on... "Gloria Steinem Got Married"

WE BELIEVE that the Commonwealth needs to place a greater focus on criminal prosecution of the anti-social, serial batterers because Click on... : "Facing Up to Family Violence" by Rosemary Chalk and Patricia A. King (This link takes you to another web site. Please use your back button to return here.)

WE BELIEVE that the Commonwealth needs to recognize that almost all families use violence toward other family members at one time or other, especially in the use of spanking, because . . . Click on... "Too Often We Believe As Fact What Only Appears to be True".

WE BELIEVE that the Commonwealth needs to focus first on providing treatment where risk factors for family violence exist at their highest levels. An integrated approach is needed for that high percentage of families where there is violence and where there is the capacity and willingness on the part of adults to learn alternative behaviors because Click on... "A Proposal for the Healing of Families Where There is Violence: An Assessment Strategy".

WE BELIEVE that the Commonwealth needs to consider addressing family violence according to unbiased research of the Federal Government because Click on... Batterer Programs: What Criminal Justice Agencies Need to Know and/or Envisioning a New Role for Communities in Stopping Violence Against Women and/or Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women" by Nancy Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes (These links take you to other web sites. Please use your back button to return here.)

WE QUESTION the belief that all violence is based on gender, that men are the sole perpetrators of intimate violence, although men are the primary perpetrators and are the primary cause of most lethal violence among adults in families Click on. . . Domestic violence - a holistic approach

WE QUESTION the reliance on gender as being the only cause of family violence because it:

  • Prevents the focus on those chronic predatory perpetrators who are criminal in intent and practice
  • May not provide services to many families who want and need assistance
  • Does not discriminate between men who might change and the anti-social perpetrators
  • Channels most of the financial resources of the government to deal reactively with family violence using the criminal justice system rather than allocating those resources for the prevention of family violence Click on... Victims of Crime Web Site of the National Institute of Justice. (This link takes you to another web site. Please use your back button to return here.)

WE QUESTION the recommendation in the final report of the United States Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence in 1984 that Progress against the problem of family violence must begin with the criminal justice system because Click on... "Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs" of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine by Rosemary Chalk and Patricia A. King (http://www.nap.edu). It may have been right at the time. However, research documents it is wrong now for most families! Progress to end family violence for most families must begin by providing assistance that allows high risk families to find new ways to deal with disorder and violence. (These links take you to other web sites. Please use your back button to return here.)

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