Absolutely.
I think it is really imperative that in any educational system—in medical school—there be almost a forced curriculum. They need to educate our future lawyers, our future police officers and anyone in the judicial system about what types of abuse there are, how these women and children have been affected and how the abusers are using this against them.
It's really important that we start education when children are very young. We need school boards to have curricula that are appropriate and designed by professionals who work in violence against women to teach children from an early age what good relationships are and about abuse, and to teach them to be able to not treat their partners....