Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polar...

I believe the video gives a good insight on how domestic violence was viewed in the 1980s by the police and other authority's as well as civilians, that it was a normal thing to hit a partner and be classified as just an argument.

In Estas speech she stated how the Polaroid picture of the injury’s that occurred was taken and this is how the breakthrough of stopping domestic violence came in to force, when the Polaroid camera started being used to take photos of the injury's to allow people to take the partners to court that led to a 64% drop in domestic violence in the U.S.

All though the speech is very inspirational and an educational insight to domestic violence, what she does not say throughout the talk is that men also can be a victim of domestic abuse,

Ester goes on about how women and children are the victims and how men should support the campaign to stop their children getting hurt, what about the male's that are suffering???
She also stated that she believed that this violence was learned and I feel as though it was implying that if your father hit your mother then so would the child which we know to be not true through millions of examples throughout the world and media of children from violent homes that go on to be wonderful parents and inspirational people themselves.



Overall a good video supporting women and children that have suffered through the hands of domestic abuse but more information on men suffering could have been used.