Reply #53: lobbying [View All]

[Shanty Oilish]

Lobbying there is. But I have long since lost faith in progress. Too much listening to the bureaucrats, the social workers, the clerks, even the shelter volunteers.
In 2 words, nobody cares. That's a blanket statement, sad and cynical. Yes. But it works for me. Having concluded that nobody else cares, I save myself and the dv victims a lot of time and disappointment. If they can't get free---FREE, not relieved or protected or counseled or whathaveyou, but FREE---by any other means, if it looks likely that no other means is going to be adequate for permanent freedom from their abuser...I don't lobby, I hand them a set of keys, and a cell phone. They stay until they get on their feet.
It takes a village, I have heard. Actually, that village must contain at least one caring heart. That is what works. For some that is the ONLY thing that will work.

on edit: ...that will ever work.