Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on April 17, 2018, 02:24:40 PM
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and other negligible things
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/17/esther-mcvey-empathy-rape-victims-tax-credits?CMP=fb_gu
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Clownshair would have hired her because she was hard.
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It’s difficult to explain just how retraumatising it is to relive rape and abuse even to people who are trained in dealing with it. This article goes nowhere near to explaining the effects this will have.
One thing I’d like to expand on is how it will hit women hard who are still living with their rapist. Many such women are also financially abused and their benefits are the only money they may have access to, or have a right to.
And there are implications for children of rape who still see their fathers. How much information will need disclosing and to whom?
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It’s difficult to explain just how retraumatising it is to relive rape and abuse even to people who are trained in dealing with it. This article goes nowhere near to explaining the effects this will have.
One thing I’d like to expand on is how it will hit women hard who are still living with their rapist. Many such women are also financially abused and their benefits are the only money they may have access to, or have a right to.
And there are implications for children of rape who still see their fathers. How much information will need disclosing and to whom?
I cannot help bit join this and the Windrush issue in my head, It seems that the plan is to do something horrendous and just hope that people will be distracted by austerity. I can't think that such measures save more than minimal amounts but some how it's thought worth it to cause pain and humiliation. It was the same with the bedroom tax. I know lots of decent Tories but this shower seem to spit on that decency.
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And I'm not alone in that feeling that this is indicative of such a culture.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/18/the-guardian-view-on-the-tax-credit-rape-clause-a-disturbing-part-of-a-greater-wrong