Domestic violence data must be reliable

A REPORT published earlier this week by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, contained some startling figures. 

It suggested that one-in-four women have experienced violence; that 8% of women aged between 18 and 74 experience physical and/or sexual violence each year, and that nearly a quarter of families — 23% — made homeless this year cited domestic violence as s a reason for leaving their homes.

These are challenging statistics, even in a society where, for far too long, we were far less supportive of the victims of sexual or domestic violence — or both — than we should have been.