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No, you did not, and I did not assert you had.

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There would be many 'excuses' for one person to hit another, and for the other to retaliate.

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Here is a link to some, and no, I am quite sure there have been many black eyes (men and women)....far more than penis severing.

Click here.

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I don't think there is a solution (human nature is human nature) other than......if you discover your partner (male or female) is violent, get out of there. 

Family violence is about power. More importantly, it is about a power imbalance.

This is why it is so dangerous and so insidious.

The partner that perpetrates violence usually has more power in the relationship and uses that power to violent ends.

It most commonly occurs from men to women as men tend to have more power in the relationship. That said, women are increasing in representation and family violence is a very large problem in LGBT partnerships.

There is far too little support for men who are victim and to add to that there is a societal stigma regarding masculinity that stops many men coming forward. This is an issue for men to address. Women can only support and not lead in building support for men. I don's think it's fair to resent superior services for women per se because women have fought very, very hard for the services we have over many, many years and the need for them is paramount. In fact there are not enough services in place. We as a community need to extend our support for more intervention and support services.

I disagree with Grap over the need for AVO's. They can and do save lives. The most dangerous time for a woman and children leaving a DV situation is directly afterwards. AVOs can keep needed distance and invrease police responding times and powers.

And to the knob-ends who said it is ok to give a woman a slap? It's not. It's not ok EVER to put your hands on another person in anger. Ever. Whoever you are.

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sorry I havent heard that one.. you have the link I am sure

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Cods, other than Alice, the rest of us do not live down rabbit holes.  Get a grip of reality.  War, famine, drought, pestilence, flood, fire, tsunami..etc etc etc exist, as does human nature, and if there is a solution, no-one has yet found it, and it will never be found by stating the bleeding obvious.

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I'm sure they have cods.  Most do.

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She married him and had that child with him.  As for the rest, I have no idea, and neither do you.

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I have no idea why you bother.  Maybe you can tell me?

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Is that you not being abusive, cods?


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Yeas, I know, So was Steve Waugh, Adam Goodes, Ita Buttrose, Geoffrey Rush, Lee Kernoghan, Pat Rafter, Mark Taylor, Cathy Freeman, Paul Hogan and a cast of other headliners.  Cuts no mustard with me, cods.


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Oh dear.....is that more personal abuse?

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I speak my mind, cods, and when I do, I am not looking for support.  However, in the case of the Morecombs, the vast....no.....the overwhelming majority on the Sunshine Coast (of which I am but one) are sick to death of the way they have milked money (on which they live and pay their bills) from the death of their son.

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I've seen and read that link before, cods. What's special about it, given the circumstances?  Would not any Mother in the same situation say exactly the same?

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Oh noes!!!!  Cods, really......is that more abuse????

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How can fact become a brag, cods?   I did, way back in the 1970s.  It was unique ground breaking stuff then.

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No cods, I did not say the Refuges were disgusting.  That is you making stuff up to suit your rant.  Further, I did not say the women were ugly.  In fact, most were quite attractive physically, and that is another mystery to me.  Which is why seemingly good looking young women get involved with dick head young men.  Yeas, I did say they were verbally abusive to their kids, and they were.  And yeas, some were being evicted.  Cods, there is a real world out here, and in this particular case, I am but a small part of it, so I know.

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You have no idea cods.  You have selected a pigeon hole for me, and you make the mistake of trying to stereotype me into it.  You are wasting your time.

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I guess I'll maybe just have to live with that, cods, hey?  Hang on......since when did you think for 'most on here?'

**another sleepy Delta da-a-ay,
I was out picking cotton,
and mah brotherwas bailin' ha-a-a-ay
Supper tahm we come up to the house to eat
And Mama said you'all remember to wipe your feet,
You know I got a note from Mrs Johnson up on Choctaw Ridge,
And she said that fracking page turner jumped off
The Tallahassee Bridge.... **

**blag, blag, blag, blag, blag.. will that page turner ever show up for work?**

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