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Would Clare's Law decrease future domestic violence, in your opinion?

Asked by Simone_De_Beauvoir (39052points) July 18th, 2011

Read here about Clare’s law being considered in Britain – a law that would enable the police to notify a person of their partner’s history of abuse. I have three issues with this law:

1. It specifically talks about notifying women about men which doesn’t, as usual, take into account that women do abuse men, emotionally and physically (not to mention same-sex violence and other combinations).

2. Just like with sex offenders, having charges brought against you doesn’t mean you actually committed the crime (not sure as of yet which people with a history of abuse will make it on ‘the list’)

3. People will say ‘yes, but he’s different now and it won’t happen to me’ thereby getting into the relationship anyway so it won’t really make a difference for the most needy victims out there.

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