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Pictures from the DRF, what a difficult subject

It sure is!
Because as Polyesco points out in her post, pregnancy can increase or trigger domestic violence. As such midwives and nurses are being trained in spotting signs (sometimes physical) of what could be domestic abuse and report it to someone higher who may be able to offer help to the pregnant women.
Sometimes the midwives will (no surprise) notice bruises on the woman's body. In some cases notice cracked or bend ribs or injuries to the face or simply odd behavior between the couple. And in some, dreadful, cases notice injuries to the fetus itself.
There is after all a limit to how often a pregnant woman can walk into a door or trip on the stairs...

I'm not delighted, no one should be delighted about such a thing, I'm glad this has been launched.
A man who beats his pregnant wife and indirectly his unborn child isn't a man. He is a failure, a loser, who doesn't deserve to be a father.
Unfortunately it happens more often than we think and in layers of the society and I have on a couple of instances been left standing in disbelief: He's wife-beater?!?
 
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