“No mass disorder afflicting humankind has ever been eliminated or brought under control by attempts at treating the affected individual.” --George W. Albee

As a Violence Prevention Educator and a father of two daughters, I struggle to strike a balance between teaching them to love and trust while navigating a world where a woman is raped every three minutes and every 18 seconds a woman is battered.  The impact of this reality on my daughter’s lives is a source of great anxiety and sadness.  Understanding how women must shape their lives to this reality provides crucial insight into how our current attitudes, understanding, and approaches fail to actually prevent sexual assault.  This understanding highlights how radically our response needs to change and how it must put much more responsibility on men to stop rape and allow women to live lives without fear of men. 

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Seattle PI Editorial: No amount of police, prosecutors and shelters will ever prevent domestic violence.