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4.5
Working daily, as I do, with victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse: male, female, adult, and child, and responding to the destructive behaviors and destructive effects of human hurtfulness, as counselor, therapist, educator, trainer and consultant, in my office, in homes, and in court as expert witness, I am all too familiar with the thesis apparently defended in this monograph, according to it's descriptions here and elsewhere. The thesis is painfully relevent because of the daily damage it does in the form of statutes, public agency rules of administrative procedure, and operational policies. Priced at $110.00, the relevance of this particular defense of the thesis is likely to be limited. Unless, of course, American political office holders make the unlikely choice to use it as a text with which to challenge and dismantle the public policies that subject so many women, children and men to it's destructive consequences each day. On the political left, this thesis, in practice, is an analog of the ideology on the political right that replaced science and simple facts in the George Bush administration. It is often pointed out that every 15 seconds a woman is assaulted in the United States by a household or family member. I have yet to see it pointed out, and explained, that every 15 seconds she, her relationships with the perpetrator and their children, if they are parents, are subjected to the destructive responses of ideological structures of policy and practice that dominate public and private response to domestic abuse and that have been constructed since the 1970's in accordance with the ideology apparently defended in this book.
