oblems as their area, so it is our duty to lead the battle against child abuse and neglect. This exercise has really opened my eyes to the vast problem with child abuse and neglect that there is today. The strengths of this paper lie in the offering of a general framework that if adopted would benefit everyone even if it doesn't end up eliminating child abuse like I believe it can. Teaching children how to deal with emotions would go a long way towards solving our problem with violence. The main weakness lies in the fact that I could not go over even a quarter of the published articles on this subject. My lack of knowledge may have led me to come up with ideas that in reality just are not going to work. This lack of knowledge also prevented me from backing up my ideas with empirical evidence. My biases lay in the fact that I cannot accept partial solutions. I must do everything that I can to solve the problem or reduce it as much as possible. For me partial solutions are just as bad as no solutions because you can never eliminate the problem if you are just addressing a part of it. The contribution that I believe I made is to open people's eyes to the necessity for a plan of action. There must be a general context in which everything takes place if we hope to be successful. If you have everyone running around doing their own thing vital information will not reach everyone and chances for success will decline rapidly.I do not know how the victims of domestic violence would react to my ideas. I would like to believe that they would appreciate my efforts to make sure that treatments were developed for the problems that they are having. They may decide, however, that they don't like my universal treatment plan and view it as to invasive. I am pretty sure that most abusers would not like my plan at all. They would probably complain that mandatory treatment is too harsh. I can hear them saying that random visits to the home ar...
