grade 12 family studies relationship violence

Grade 12 Family Studies

Relationship Violence

“The family is both the most loving and supportive of human groups and also by

far the most violent group or institution.”

-Child at Risk Report: Government of Canada

Table of Contents• Definitions

• Forms of Relationship Violence

• Violence Against Women

• Types of Abusers

• Dating Violence

• Spousal Violence

• Child AbuseRelationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship &

Youth

Objectives• GLO 1.2.1 Identify and

describe the forms of relationship violence and abuse.

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Definitions

• Violence

• Abuse

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Forms of Relationship Violence

Relationship

Violence

Sexual Abuse

Financial Abuse

Social Abuse

Psychological/

Emotional Abuse

PhysicalAbuse

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Violence Against Women

• Female victims

• Spousal Abuse

• Typical Characteristics

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More Likely to Occur• New relationships

• Younger People

• Common Law

• Rural or Isolated Areas

• Immigrant Women

• Physically Challenged/DisabledRelationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Why Do Partner’s Stay?

• Commitment to the Care Giving Role

• Fear of the Consequences of Leaving

• Feeling Powerless

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Types of Abusers

• The “reactors”

• The “entitled”

• Overwhelmed by events

• Neurologically or Psychologically ill

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Dating Violence

Verbal Abuse Sexual Abuse Physical Abuse

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Girls

Figure 1- Girls in a Steady Dating Relationship

Source: Klinic Community Health Centre, Winnipeg MB, 2005

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

More Dating Violence Facts…

• 15 years old

• Home or Car

• Jealously

• Boys they know

• Drinking & Drugs http://www.kcdvtf.org

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Signs of Dating Violence

http://www.wordle.net/.

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Get Out NOW

• Earlier than later

• Stay or be Alone

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Date Rape• Without mutual consent

• Alcohol or Date-Rape Drugs

• Blackouts, disorientation, memory loss

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Spousal Violence

• Private family matter

• Hidden crime

• Some improvements

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Repeat incidents of spousal abuse rarely reported: StatsCan

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

http://www.cbc.ca

Factors the Contribute to Spousal Abuse• Poverty• Inadequate

housing• Unemployme

nt• Acceptance of

violence• Stress• Verbal

aggression• Misguided

way of resolving conflicts

• Depression

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Prevention Strategies• Primary

Prevention Programs

• Secondary Prevention Programs

• Tertiary Prevention Programs

www.canada.justice.gc.ca

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Societal Consequences • Enormous

economic implications

• $4.2 billion per year

• $871,908,583.00 per year.

www.canada.justice.gc.ca

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

“We have less control over others and more power over ourselves than we like to think.”

Stephen Vizinczey

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Child Abuse• Physical, emotional,

sexual abuse & neglect

• First laws 1800s

• Children are not property of parents

• No right to physically punish children

• Child abuse registries

• No central child abuse registry.

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Reasons for Low Reporting Rates• Child abuse is a secret

• Children are afraid or too young

• Abuse continues

• Suspected abuse should be reported.

• Reasons for injuries are believable.

• Not their business

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Cold Hard Facts• Increased recently

• Social service providers strained

• Typically unwanted

• Strict discipline

• 3 – 8 years old

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

Short and Long Term Effect of Abuse

• Developmental delays

• Suicidal thoughts

• Difficulties forming close relationships

• Less economic success

• Increased risk to be abusive

• Difficulty trusting intimate partnersRelationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship &

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Response to Child AbuseNo standard definition of child abuse

• Protocol:– Remove the child– Provide treatment– Re-educate the parents

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“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.” Maria Montessori

• Funding for social services

• Transition housing

• Counseling

• Family courts vary

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Art From Abused Children

There has to be hope.

Relationship Violence - 2005 MB Education Citizenship & Youth

http://www.youtube.com/

References• www.canada.justice.gc.ca • http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/07/13/spousal-ab

use.html?ref=rss• Child at Risk Report: Government of Canada• Senior 4 Family Studies(40S) A Course for Distance Learning 2005 Manitoba

Education, Citizenship and Youth • http://www.kcdvtf.org/05-respect_posters_DATINGVIOL

ENCE1.jpg• Klinic Community Health Centre, Winnipeg MB, 2005• http://www.wordle.net/• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbkz_3lO3c

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