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GINNY Nicarthy, at
right, presses home
her point on wife
assault during forum
last week in North
Vancouver. Others
on the panel includ-
ed moderator Bill
Perry (left) and
assistant deputy
minister Robin
Bourne who looks
after policing for the
Atterney General’s
Department.

| Greater public awareness needed

crowd was Robin “After being in a Transi-

THE ONLY way to make permanent inroads on the ;
Assistant

the political and social problem of wife assault is

for all facets of society

movement,
Thursday.

| By JOANNE MacDONALD |

Speaking at the public
forum which opened the two
day conference, Wife
Assault, the Vicious Circle,

a crowd of about

to work together as a
100 was told

counsellor Ginny Nicarthy
said the first step in curbing
wife assault is public
awareness, saying if women
are encouraged to discuss the
problem, they will be able to
get help.

Also on hand to address

Bourne,
minister, Police Services, for
B.C.’s Ministry of the At-
torney General.

The Seattle-based Nicar-
thy stressed more research is
needed on women who
return to abusive husbands.
She said those women who
have spent time in Transition
Houses are often able to get
jobs and become

deputy tion House, their concern

for their children also takes
a different form,’ said
Nicarthy, ‘‘Some of these
women begin to see that a
violent father is worse Sor
their children than no father
atall.’*

Nicarthy said some men
who batter ‘‘often have feel-

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