DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
By Ian Berrocal Azofeifa

Domestic violence is one of the most important problems that the next goverment must attack. Many women had died and the statistics continue growing. The authorities have been creating laws since many years ago, but they have not resolve the problem. In this essay, I am going to explain three posible ways to attack this situation: education, prevention, and resources.

In the first side, it should be more education about personal knowledge for children. Children should be educated about values, how to treat the other people, and how to control their own emotions (self-control techniques). Otherwise, when they grow up, they will not know how to resolve their personal problems and this could affect their own families. In contrast, a good education will improve their skills for social relationships.

Furthermore, there is the prevention. This is not an specific responsability of the goverment. All the society must participate actively designing prevention strategies to avoid the domestic violence. It can be done by social programs in schools, public libraries to inform the people about their rights.

Finally, it is necessary to have more resources and “politic will”. More judges and cops are necessary to stop domestic violence. The efforts must be coordinated between institutions to get the maximum potencial against this battle.

Although, domestic violence is a never ending problem, but if we all fight against this situation, we can reduce the negative effects and build a better society with more and better men and women, who are concious of their important role in society. The children are the most important in this moment, because they are able to make the change for the future, but all of that depends on you and me.