The Poverty of Domestic Violence

[jwirr]

4. This is not suprising. Child abuse also goes up. The emotional aspect of being unemployed is

seldom considered and almost never addressed. That of course is not an excuse for what is happening but it is a sign that we are doing nothing about the side effects of unemployment.

I have never seem my daughter and her husband argue until he was laid off. It has helped that he is going back to school (for something that he can use around the house/apartment because at his age he is probably not going to get hired again) and he is starting a small farm. He is going to be good at that farm - in the last month he has fenced in his property, put a road through from one end to the other and built a barn. Got new baby chicks to replace the old chickens, baby turkeys, baby pigs, baby geese, baby lambs and baby goats. Doubled the size of the garden and added some wild plants that he could take out of the wild. He is moving my butterfly garden to his place, etc. All of this makes one feel better about themselves.

Men and women who are unemployed need something to make them feel better about themselves. However I understand that all abuse cannot be blamed on this simple fact. We as women must demand that it end not only for us and our families but for others in our communities. That is how we got those shelters and the laws.