05-06-2024, 10:30 PM
Courageous stuff to share that with us, Green Stick. A horror story. Similar stories only too often happening behind closed doors around the nation... world. I have little doubt you've ended up with PTSD. I hope you've support and help for this, assuming you have PTSD... regardless, that level of trauma is abhorrent and lasting. I'm also concerned for your sister, for a number of reasons.
Expecting politicians to effectively address the issue of domestic violence is worrisome, to say the least. They've centuries of being ineffectual, even contributory, in this area. I saw an episode of Q & A on the ABC where a Criminologist summarized the issue sharply and succinctly -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d0lHA-zDBdg
He mentioned in this 'patient dumping'... a cruel and critical cause/issue at the core of domestic violence (not a fan of using the acronym for domestic violence... subtle sanitizing).
Expecting families (often already under difficulty) to deal with mentally ill and drug fkd family members is cruel and absurd.
Expecting politicians to effectively address the issue of domestic violence is worrisome, to say the least. They've centuries of being ineffectual, even contributory, in this area. I saw an episode of Q & A on the ABC where a Criminologist summarized the issue sharply and succinctly -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d0lHA-zDBdg
He mentioned in this 'patient dumping'... a cruel and critical cause/issue at the core of domestic violence (not a fan of using the acronym for domestic violence... subtle sanitizing).
Expecting families (often already under difficulty) to deal with mentally ill and drug fkd family members is cruel and absurd.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17