kp posted:We need more structured mechanism ,such as the Community Centers, boys clubs and girls clubs, Scouts and Girls Guides, All Churches, back to the old days to teach wood working, baking, and sewing at schools. Yes, enforce strict alcohol laws in the bars, don't serve the drunks. Increase the price of booze and make it less accessible to the poor and uneducated.
Set up a hotline for all domestic violence to be reported, have more social workers in the villages.
What I noted was around in the 60's and 70's, but greed and politics got in the way and neglect stepped in.
While all good the issue of gender relations is what needs to be analyzed and adjusted. I mentioned above that (based on anecdotal evidence) in NYC Afro Guyanese men are seen as being more controlling. This controlling attitude is what precipitates domestic violence.
I suspect that alcoholism isn't a greater problem among Afro Guyanese men than it is among Afro Caribbean men. Just as important the behavior of the drunk doesn't differ either. I don't think that Afro Caribbean men use liquor as a cover to engage in certain behaviors as some might argue that Indo Caribbean men do.