Syag:
Validation and confrontation have their benefits. Money does not. And I am not protecting the pocketbooks of the perps or enablers. All I am saying is that there is a problem, but that this doesn’t solve it. Providing the victims with money may gratify them in other ways, not much different from a good steak dinner or their favorite ice cream. And their pleasure might be nice. But it won’t resolve their problem. Pleasure does not erase pain, and it is not the solution. As for the validation and confrontation piece, it would be at least as useful, if not much more, to have the ability to press criminal charges.