Could a Basic Income protect people from Domestic Violence? — Market Mad House

A Basic Income could save many women, children, and others from domestic violence.

To be honest, basic income will not prevent domestic violence. The causes of domestic violence are too complex for one policy to solve.

On the other hand, a basic income could enable many people to escape from domestic violence. To explain one reason people stay in abusive relationships; or homes, is poverty.

How Poverty Drives Domestic Violence

Many women stay with violent men because they lack the money to leave. Our sick society gives these women the horrible choice of “stay with the violent guy or sleep in the streets.”

We force many poor women, uneducated women, or women who cannot work because they have to care for children or elderly, or disabled relatives to stay with violent men. These women have to stay with a violent creep because he pays the bills.

Another way poverty makes domestic worse is that many women are afraid to report domestic violence to law enforcement because they are afraid the violent partner will go to jail or prison. The women fear the loss of income if authorities lock the man up.