Hermione Gilchrist

Research shows that family and domestic violence is primarily driven by attitudes and social structures that normalise men’s control over women, including the condoning of violence against women, unequal decision-making power, rigid gender roles, and male peer cultures that excuse aggression. While men can experience abuse, women’s experiences of violence occur within a broader system of structural inequality and misogyny that routinely devalues and disempowers them. House and support women and children first.