Domestic Violence and the World Cup

[LordPanofthePeaks]

I raise this after an exchange of emails with MN HQ and after checking the list of issues raised in this topic list.

Posters may or may not be aware of the significant rise in the experience of DV at the times of football tournaments, and most specifically the World Cup.

Anyone googling this issue will read some startling statistics, and would appreciate that as the tournament draws near this is a heighten time of risk to women. In the borough where I work the highest ever reporting time of DV was when England played Paraguay last time ( and won).

I don't wish to killjoy a fabulous event, but the darker side of it should not be ignored.

Nationally, DV incidents reported 'spike' at these times, and we can speculate why.
I do have a professional ( and personal) interest in this, and am keen to promote an awareness of this danger. I do have responsibilities in a public organisation for Domestic Violence, as well as Children and Families, and have noticed a lack of promotion of this danger which can be so easily predicted.

So I am inviting a discussion and pointers for how people, both perptrators and potential victims can do what they can to avoid this nasty experience. MN do not ahve a current DV campaign, though the strength of opinion from posters may change this.

Anyone?

And yes alcohol doesn't cause DV on its own but in combination with toxic masculinity plus tribal culture it makes for a dangerous cocktail

The suicide rate amongst DV survivors is through the roof but no one wants to talk about it.

The suicide rate amongst DV survivors is through the roof but no one wants to talk about it.

I didn't know that - not surprise but is no one highlighting it?

No they aren't. The known figure is 8 women a week. 4 successfully suicide within 24 hours of being treated for DV at A&E, and another 4 within 6 months.
www.lwa.org.uk/understanding-abuse/statistics.htm

So in the UK, DV is known to be responsible for the deaths of 10 women a week. Its an absolute epidemic.

Refuge say nearly 30 women attempt suicide every day after DV, and are attempting to introduce a new law to make abusive partners liable.

No they aren't. The known figure is 8 women a week. 4 successfully suicide within 24 hours of being treated for DV at A&E

Wow how shocking - poor women - and yes making abusers liable for prosecution would be a good first step. I still find people generally don't understand the mind control at play in intimate partner violence and how coming out of it can be too much for women as they don't get the specialist care they need when they need it for as long as they need it. Like cult survivors.

God help the young women caught up in body hatred, not of their making, but convinced by cult surgery and drugs to take that route - their suicide rate will undoubtably be high as they exit the coercive control :(

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