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 &

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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

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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

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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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Figure 1- Girls in a Steady Dating Relationship

Source: Klinic Community Health Centre, Winnipeg MB, 2005

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More Dating Violence Facts…

• 15 years old

• Home or Car

• Jealously

• Boys they know

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

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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

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Date Rape• Without mutual consent

• Alcohol or Date-Rape Drugs

• Blackouts, disorientation, memory loss

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Spousal Violence

• Private family matter

• Hidden crime

• Some improvements

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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

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

Stephen Vizinczey

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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.

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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

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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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