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violence against women (and of course children...well violence against ANYONE MUST STOP)

New Bill Would Help Domestic Violence Victims

By Allison Stevens, Women's eNewsPosted on January 15, 2007, Printed on January 15, 2007http://www.alternet.org/story/46601/
When it comes to domestic violence, Sen. Joseph Biden likes to compare the federal government to a lawnmower.
"Combating violence in the home is like cutting the grass," the Democrat from Delaware is fond of saying. "You can't just do it once."
In other words, the scourge of domestic violence can't be cured with one piece of legislation or one round of federal spending, he says. It's a persistent problem that needs to be addressed year after year, one congressional session after the next.
That is why Biden -- author of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which created and funded federal programs to help victims of domestic violence -- keeps thinking about new ways to reduce violence against women. And now with his party in power in the House and Senate, he is in position to find more support.
His current plan involves legal assistance.
Only 170,000 low-income domestic violence survivors have legal representation each year, less than 20 percent of at least 1 million victims who experience it annually, according to a 2005 report by the Institute for Law and Justice in Alexandria, Va., and the National Center for Victims and Crime in Washington, D.C................

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