23 April

It's quite striking that domestic violence is much more likely in poor households. Poor women have to use police to solve these problems, the wealthy hire lawyers. Another dimension to why this is poorly understood as a gender problem. Households have taken on both the financial and emotional burden of societies increasingly stripped of community resources by modern conservative politicians, who flog off community assets to fund massive tax cuts to wealthy donors and themselves. Households are pressure cookers, we're cramming problems that communities used to solve into every individual relationship and home. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-19/domestic-violence-and-poverty-statistics/10108140