Thank you for more supporting signatures and some brave sharing on the the reason for signing. The petition is only giving a glimmer of the overall problem and how many women are affected throughout the UK with incompetence and mal-policies that fail to appreciate the fundamental points that 1. the perpetrator financially cripples his victim; 2. women have been through a systematic torture of beatings and psychological controlling with put me downs on their very existence - she then suffers post traumatic stress depression ... liken to war victims of torture and sadism upon them. 3. the imprints of the pain from her beating can last for years in fact for a life time but with healing and detoxing from the ugliness of violence the pain memory gets less. I will give you example - I used to get lots of beatings around my head... and hair pulling on my scalp and even when out of the relationship if I accidentally banged my head it would reawaken the beatings ... I could get angry as I re touched the ugly energy of anger around me... even as I type this I can see his twisted contorted face as he splutters out horrid insults to me.... and recently I needed to have a tooth extracted remember I am not getting an adequate diet so my teeth have been spontaneously fracturing...having the upper molar taken out sort of reconnected me to the fractured arm pain... and I am usually brave dental care but I cried and cried... and my dentist knowing my history understood what was happening and was so kind to me and his nurse.... You see trauma leaves imprints on your psyche... in your aura energy... and can be why we can attract another of the same character... This recovery is a serious time of needing so much peace and love and compassion and understanding care... NOT a system battering us with a policy based on the demonization of those on benefits. Benefits we have paid in to with our tax when able to earn. Yesterday I had a good day - I touched Marjorie the very essence of me... I went to the Gov Get into Teaching Open Day near Tottenham Court road... you see I had this booking to go to seek some part time hours teaching... SO THERE WAS NO NEED FOR THE JOBCENTRE TO SANCTION ME!! I was valued and respected by the teachers and head of department that I spoke to and I have been signposted to something I could do... have a read of my blog to catch up on this - also note over 60s have to pay for the training ... whereas younger ones can earn £26,000 while training... considered an investment for the younger ones with years of work ahead of them. http://womensvoicestobeheard.blogspot.co.uk/ When I got home one of my daughters had been round to tidy up and bring in the post and leave me flowers and chocs and some smoked salmon...for MOTHERS DAY..... ohhh a touch of luxury... Salmon is my favourite fish as I feel a kindred spirit - always swimming upstream and getting so exhausted with all currents against me :-) :-( The post had my Mothers day cards AND FOUR LETTERS FROM THE DWP ..... yes FOUR letters of FOUR Pages each ALL SAYING THE SAME THING!! a sign of incompetence perhaps!! But look at the now ESA they have to keep to the by law £73.10 a week of which you pay housing benefit cap and council tax...but because i get just short of £65 a MONTH NHS pension this is deducted... not permissible as little extra for me.... I AM BAFFLED BY THIS as you can have £16,000 in savings and still get benefits... but I have nothing no assets... so why am battered like this and robbed of my dignity. DO NOTE: I am having £7 a week deducted for council tax for the property where I was beaten up and had my arm broken...!! I find this perverse... and truly if I was the Council Leader for the LBH or any council borough I would have this waivered out of common decency and care for the women victim!!! Also have a look at the work capability form and posting on my Women's voices to be heard blog..... I have been told I bang on a bit too much - but I am speaking from the front-line and this is what it is like... so I am writing this so you can chose to read it or not... so you can understand it all and see with me that we need MAJOR REFORM of the DWP...... and in this I am a WASPI.... carrying pain and prejudice against my birth year... born in 1954 cannot get my state pension till 2020 if I can keep strong and survive till then... We have had some trolls out of their caves on the twitter ... there are some heartless folk about and troll abuse is unacceptable towards women survivors.. .... but then the government needs to find a heart too and really care and understand all the pain... Keep going with the sharing and signing .. {{{hugs}}} to you all and to all the others in pain... I promise I will turn our pain into Campaign until our voices are heard and URGENT REFORM IS MADE.... Marjorie