It’s 50 years since domestic violence burst into the awareness of Irish society and the first refuge was started by Women’s Aid. Yet, though we inch along, legislating against coercive control, providing refuges (though not enough) and recognising that men also experience domestic violence, here we still are. Though motivations have never been definitively established, to deal with domestic violence we also need to know what is not true as well as what is. Is domestic violence due to a loss of control by the perpetrator? Alcohol seems to be a factor in some domestic violence cases.

Source: The Irish Times November 26, 2020 06:00 UTC