RUNNING OUT OF FUNDS TO BATTLE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Letter to Dom Post, February 5)

 

Police Minister Judith Collins says(White Ribbon funding dries up, February 5) that responding to family violence accounts for nearly half of a frontline police officer’s time. The mind boggles at the expense.

 

And Government funding for our flagship anti-domestic violence campaign, White Ribbon, has dried up. And White Ribbon doesn’t want to take money off Women’s Refuge and Rape Crisis, who need it to battle the same awful problem.

 

Maybe running out of funds will finally force ‘White Ribbon Ambassador’ John Key and the policy wonks to acknowledge the vital connection between abuse in the family home and abuse of children in their first home - the womb. Because there will be no end to the financial and societal costs of violence of men against women until we end the violence against our unborn children.