FAMILY VIOLENCE AND CHILD POVERTY While the Glenn inquiry suggests that colonisation is to blame for domestic violence and child abuse, Professor David Fergusson of Otago University, who heads the world renowned 25-year longitudinal Christchurch Health and Development Study, has found no such evidence.[4] Professor Fergusson’s Ethnic Identity and Intimate Partner Violence in a New Zealand Birth Cohort research, addresses this very issue, finding the extent to which the over-representation of Maori in domestic violence “is proposed by the systemic theory of colonisation… was not supported by the data”. And that is the problem with the Glenn Inquiry. In choosing to use the experiences of people who have been involved in domestic violence as, seemingly, the sole arbiters of policy, the plausibility of the inquiry has been compromised........ Read Dr Muriel Newmans NZCPR newsletter here > nzcpr/family-violence-and-child-poverty/ And Lindsay Mitchells NZCPR guestpiece Discussing Child Poverty in New Zealand here > nzcpr/discussing-child-poverty-in-new-zealand/
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:26:22 +0000
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