Australia-- "World-first program aims to stop domestic violence when it first appears: in boyhood."

omegaphallic · 2016-09-27T01:12:02+00:00

Wow, teach boys they're evil from day one. I wonder how much this will damage them pyschologically.

wisty · 2016-09-27T09:08:41+00:00

'Their job is to be a kid. It is mum's responsibility to be a parent, to call the shots. The young person is not the man of the house; mum is the parent of the house.'

Lol, it's all the fault of le patriarch, and not parenting. Right.

Still, let's be honest. An awful lot of women with abusive partners are themselves a bit abusive - "there's no such thing as a perfect victim" (well, there can be, maybe 30% of the time). And whether the children are picking up these abusive behaviours (threats, verbal abuse, intimidation, or punching holes in the wall) from one parent or both, then it's an issue that will carry on to the next generation.

And IIRC there is some evidence that parenting is harder with an opposite-sex child, so maybe the boys do have a harder time. And of course, single parents have it a lot harder.

I think it's a bit silly to blame it on patriarchy though, rather than just admitting some single parents aren't super-heroes. I guess the parents will be more accepting of the idea if you blame the kids, so it guess it can be justified - bad parents are the people who won't respond well if you suggest they might be not be perfect. I'm just worried that the focus on patriarchy bullshit means it's going to be a useless program run by ideologues.

probably_a_squid · 2016-09-27T09:21:09+00:00

I had a glimmer of hope when I saw the title. I thought that maybe this would be an article about how to prevent abuse against boys. Now I just feel broken hearted and sick to my stomach.

ID0WNVOTEMODS · 2016-09-27T02:58:18+00:00

Hopefully this will help curb the 70% of DV initiated by women.

Sasha_ · 2016-09-27T11:01:08+00:00

Perhaps point out to the school that the idea that boys are made of slugs and snails, and girls of sugar and spice and 'all things nice' dates back to the seventeenth century, and that we really should have moved on from this crude, dated sexist labelling by now.

NUMBERS2357 · 2016-09-27T14:13:40+00:00

The same old thing - DV against girls is bad because violence against girls is bad. DV against boys is bad because they might commit violence against girls.

This program appears to do nothing for the boys themselves, it just treats them like they're now tainted, and are potential threats, like DV is a zombie epidemic thing, "now you're one of them". Nothing to help the kids with the fact that they're all victims child abuse, no treating them with the sympathy you'd afford victims.

Notice the article refers to the mother as "the survivor", and not the kids. To call someone a "survivor" means you're saying they're the victim, they require sympathy, society should be working to help them. They never call any of the kids in question "survivors".

To do so would be to admit their humanity.

thrway_1000 · 2016-09-27T02:19:44+00:00

https://archive.is/m7mLV

trampson · 2016-09-27T05:16:26+00:00

Fuck these bigots.

Title	Australia-- "World-first program aims to stop domestic violence when it first appears: in boyhood."
Author	ThePigmanAgain
Upvotes	40
Comments	32
Date	September 27, 2016 12:02 AM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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