C C Smale Family Lawyer

As I have indicated time after time, I do not buy into the often-held perception of domestic violence as pictured only by “wife beating”. The view  of men as the sole, or even the main, perpetrators of violence against women and children is questionable.

I can hardly figure out the weirdness of this report. Two people are the victims of a stabbing and are both in critical condition; a 12 year old girl and her mother aged “between 30 and 40″. The Police are “not looking for anyone else in connection with the stabbings”.

I expect a man will be to blame. If so it will be the only way this incident is included in the domestic violence statistics.

At the fag end of the previous government the former Department of Children Schools and Families were publishing guidance at a rate of fifty or sixty publications per  month – thousands of pages each month at the cost of millions of pounds.

Separately, the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was set up. This required over 11 million people to register their fitness to work with children or vulnerable adults.

One justification of the ISA is that if it saved one child from abuse it would be worth it. The “if” is quite a a big “if”. You could provide thousands of mosquito nets at five pounds a time to save many children from death from Malaria. Far less cost than the cost of the ISA which would doubtfully save one child.

We are obsessed in this country by paedophilia and too little concerned with thinking objectively. This is the reason I like Lenore Skenazy’s Free Range Kids website.

There is going to be a massive cut in government spending.

I  think that we have to dismantle the whole idea that normal life is a threat to children’s safety. No! Forcing children away from normal life is the reason they cannot keep themselves safe, they suffer from health problems, emotional problems and failure to cope.