Ms Margaret Martin:

It would be about having somebody who understands the dynamics of domestic violence, who is able to see if inappropriate things are happening and can feed that back in monitoring what is going on. Many women would welcome their child having a relationship with the father but it is a difficult situation for them to be in when they do not know if the child will be safe. Some men use it as a threat. They may send photographs saying, "We are here, we are at the sea, I might drive the car off the pier and you might never see us." People completely underestimate the level of threat that exists in a large number of domestic violence cases. Until there is recognition of this, the responses are not going to be developed. We are dealing with this inadequacy all the time.