Are we utilizing existing legal and social work processes to hold batterers accountable for their behavior?
Batterer accountability is essential to the mission of any child protection and welfare agency. It is impossible to claim that you are addressing the safety of children and mothers suffering from domestic violence without developing strategies to deal with the batterer. Instituting these strategies do not necessarily involve major changes in the law or new resources. Old problems need to be approached with fresh eyes. For instance, in many jurisdictions, it is uncommon that one parents parental rights are terminated without terminating the rights of the other parent. Perhaps in domestic violence cases, where the batterer remains a serious threat to the children and the mother has demonstrated ample commitment to her childrens well being and safety, the batterers parental rights can be terminated without effecting the mothers rights. This type of differential response could go a long way to removing a major injustice of the child protection systems response to domestic violence. A sampl
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