NEW YORK — “If the NFL waits until after an assault occurs the organization cannot stop their players from beating their wives or bruising their children,“ says Barry Goldstein, author of The Quincy Solution, Stop Domestic Violence And Save $500 Billion, published October 1st.
“The Quincy Solution demonstrates that we have the ability to dramatically reduce domestic violence and child abuse,” according to Andrew Willis, founder and CEO of The Stop Abuse Campaign. “Mr. Goldstein’s book makes it clear that best practices proven successful in communities like Quincy, Massachusetts, San Diego and Nashville, can be adopted nationwide to end domestic abuse of women and children.”
While the NFL is attempting to engage in prevention by providing training, counseling and resources for players, Goldstein believes more can be done. “The problem not only for the NFL, but for all of society, is that many of us suffer from adverse childhood experiences and a lifetime of misinformation that often minimizes or even worse, encourages domestic violence and sexual assault.”
Former NFL player and child abuse survivor Al Chesley is encouraged by Goldstein’s Quincy Solution and calling for implementation of the book’s lessons. “Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson have probably destroyed their reputations and careers because they acted on wrongful beliefs that should have been corrected long before their abusive actions, said Al Chesley. “The best way the NFL can respond to its mistaken response to players’ criminal abuse is to support prevention as detailed in The Quincy Solution,” added Chesley.
One of the women hired by the NFL to create a social responsibility team is Rita Smith, former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In the forward to The Quincy Solution Smith writes, “ I can’t help but think of all the courageous women who died and all the anguished faces of the children they left behind – who could have been saved by this book.”
“Because of its prominence and with the heightened scrutiny it now faces, the NFL is in a unique position to inform the public about the benefits of The Quincy Solution to help make our homes safe for women and children,” notes Goldstein. “The League has the resources, platform and attention to enhance public awareness to help end most domestic violence and child abuse,” he concludes.
The Stop Abuse Campaign calls on Commissioner Goodell to turn the negative from the mishandling of the Ray Rice case into a positive by working with us to end domestic violence and sexual abuse through implementation of the Quincy Solution.
