A female was housed with newly released male sex offenders? Really? All the male sex
offenders I worked with were housed under strict conditions in all male accommodations. Females would not be housed with convicted male sex offenders. I find it hard to believe that any supported accommodation provider would place a vulnerable female with high risk male sex offenders.
This struck me too! I know mistakes are made, but surely there would be rigorous Risk Assessments made by the probation officer, police and housing officers?
Every Christmas I collect essentials for women in refuge and our local mp takes them in to be made into shoe box type gifts for women. I asked ptwm in several dms last year to share but she never did. Clearly tampons and deodorant not glamorous enough.
Thank you for doing this
No, it’s not glamorous but it’s what is needed and people like you make Christmas a little easier. When I was in refuge at Christmas time, me and the other women were given a box of donated toiletries that had been collected all year and the workers made a little parcel with them. I went home on Christmas Eve because my mind was broken (even though I’d heard from family that he had been sleeping with another woman), I rang him to fetch me and the children on Dec 24th. “Driving home for Christmas” on the radio. He assaulted me again and I was in another refuge in January.
This time, I was shown to my own fridge and cupboards where there were tea, coffee, sugar and in the freezer there were donated roasties, veg and meat that kind people had given so that families could have Christmas lunch. That has always stayed with me.
No woman wants a gift basket with personalised, embellished fancy baby clothes that will have been on social media, tagged so the business owner gains followers - to me, this screams exploiting the women.
Put a picture of food in a bag and say it’s been donated to the local Food Bank. Ask followers to collect Advent Calendars for children in refuges at Christmas (we gave our own staff chocolates last Christmas because food banks were running low on treats). Ask followers to volunteer an hour or two a week where they can sit and have tea with an older person to overcome loneliness. There’s so much you can do PTWM without being greedy, you could have trained and been employed in this field. You’d still have made money from the book... there was no need for Go fund me or PayPal to be set up.
At risk of losing your home? Well... those very women you advocate for have also lost theirs. They go on the social housing register for years or look for private lets. Why did you ask for donations when your husband has a job? Why didn’t you go and work full time? Downsize? I can’t afford any animals and I barely make the rent each month but that’s life until the kids are older.
And another thing... I know this thread is about PTWM but I don’t have much to say about a man who left his family on his son’s birthday to move in and raise another family.
He started an affair with a pregnant woman? Doing night feeds with a newborn that wasn’t his - whilst his broken wife was at home, consoling two little boys who thought their daddy didn’t love them enough?
And after what they did, they both have the audacity to call this woman incapable of being a mum because she turned to drink to cope with the mess they created?
A wonderful man upholding the law of the land with high morals and values
I have to go and catch up on the housework now and then take the kids out, will catch up with everyone tonight.