Thank you so much.
The one thing I have a really hard time with when I'm working with the women is they come in, they tell their story, and they talk about how they reported domestic violence. When they begin to report domestic violence it goes on a police record and the crisis centre is called. Maybe they leave their partner, go into the shelter, and then they reconcile sometime later, or the partner keeps stalking and stalking and they feel like they can't get away from them. Maybe there's a whole issue with family. The abuser ends up coming back in the home and then the children are apprehended. It further abuses the women.
So that policy needs to change. There needs to be something different with the abuser. If he's continually going back into that home, it shouldn't be the children who are being removed from the mother and being put into the system and everyone being further victimized. It should be the person who's doing the abuse. Why does he always get off the hook? He then goes into another relationship and then that family is put into turmoil. It keeps perpetuating itself. You have this one abuser and maybe he has three or four families he's been involved in and there's been abuse in those families.