unfolded that she had delivered these two little boys prematurely, because she had been serely beaten pregncy, a very common thing in pgnancy. a large percentage of women in pregnancy are beaten, interestingly enough. and she delivered these babies prematurely and they were blind. and he was now beating her again and was furious with her for having given him these little boys that were not perfect. and she says his next step is he's going to kill these little boys. though violence may be as old as civilization itself, it wasn't until the early 1970s, that it was finally named a public health problem. looking at violence from a health or public health perspective has been very helpful, both because it means one looks at those factors that lead to and contribute to violence-- factors that you can do something about, preventively or even in a treatment sense, but it also tends to decriminalize things so that you can approach communities from a non-judicial, non-police point of view, and that is often that is often more acceptable for communities. communities are able then to undertake things. in