Well, I hit another turn in the road...
This advocacy project is so twisted...
many people are trying to work on related issues, but are unwilling to work together...
I found several proposed Bills that could be used to decrease DV...
I then spoke with legal counsel of the state's DV coalition who said that none will help...
the one that needs to be focused on is a piece of a law, passed 3 years ago about education on safe dating...it's an optional program...and not many schools are implementing.
It makes sense...but what bothers me is that she refused to see that interpersonal violence is related...
whether it is bullying, rape, child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, even ultimately war...you get the picture.
Now I am wondering if anyone has ever done research on the similarities in the patterns of various interpersonal violence...
I am concerned because if each coalition maintains their own "turf"...then the violence will persist because we fail to see that lack of respect for others is a basic societal need.
I think it would be fascinating to look at the origins of religion...pre-naming and claiming...
again...if we looked for similarities we could actually find common ground.
Maybe this could be a focus for our book...identifying commonalities (Me too) and looking for bridges to bring us together.
More later,
Maggie
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