Victims were expected to keep their perpetrators away from their properties – at odds with the realities of how family violence works. But in family violence situations, it implies that a person is consenting to being abused. Toy-Cronin said the victim-blaming extended to other state agencies, in opposition to the Government’s stated intention to jointly address family violence. No one is going to take you if you have that on record.”Kathryn George/Stuff Family violence isn’t always a scene from Once Were Warriors. Those cases had additional complex factors on top of family violence involved, but it could not discuss the complexities because of privacy issues, it said.

Source: Stuff January 24, 2021 15:56 UTC