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Email:
info@familynonviolence.org

Phone: 1 (508) 996-1100

Fax: 1 (508) 996-1100*51

Family Non-Violence, Inc.
P.O. Box 814
Fairhaven, MA 02719-0800

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 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.)