I think fear of the apprehension of children is one of the main things that keeps aboriginal women from reporting violence to the police, because as soon as social services or child welfare finds out there is violence in that home, and if the woman has not left the home, the solution seems to be to remove the children.
I think this is a very complicated issue, because it's really important to recognize that violence does have an impact on children, whether they are aboriginal children or non-aboriginal children. But still, the rapidity with which social services seems to think the solution to this problem is to remove the children, rather than put resources into that family to allow the family to remain together, or perhaps to remove the man rather than the children, is a huge barrier to the reporting of domestic violence by aboriginal women.