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When this issue of Ms. was published, the phrases "battered woman" and "domestic violence" were just entering the language, and the women's movement was organizing the first shelters, and pressing for the first police responses and laws.
Now, the frontier is realizing that domestic violence is the most reliable indicator of all violence -- in the street or military violence against another country -- because it normalizes the idea that violence is an inevitable or an acceptable way of solving conflict.
Violence begins in the home, and it must end there. For instance, right now in this global pandemic, domestic violence is increasing in every country that reports it. Why is that? Because hierarchy, the idea that one group has a right to dominate another, begins in the home.
This is a dramatic illustration of the need to uproot hierarchy everyday. Child or adult, male or female, whatever our so-called race or class, we are each a unique part of a circle.
