NURS 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Elder Abuse, Psychological Abuse, Male Privilege
family week 8
Family violence includes intimate partner violence (dating or marriage or with
anyone who could be intimate), child maltreatment, and elder abuse. It can be
physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse, as well as neglect.
Women have more health issues because of violence. Women are more likely to be
killed by partner and have health impacts and more likely to experience violence.
25% of all police reported violent crime – but it’s very unreported.
Who is most at risk?
Children, women, geriatrics, anyone financial dependent on their partner, people
with disabilities, indigenous people (2x more likely), LGBTQ community
Violence against women and children is a public health issue of global
importance. Global data show that one out of every three women will experience
physical or sexual abuse in their lifetime. Approximately 18% of women and almost
8% of men say they have been victims of sexual abuse as children. The health
impacts are significant when violence happens.
Stats
30% of women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.
80% of intimate partner violence is against women.
32% of adults in Canada report having experienced some form of maltreatment as a
child. – Most commonly neglect and exposure to intimate partner violence.
Most people don’t come forward until later and there isn’t anything they can do
about it.
Family violence is complicated- no single factor can accurately predict when it
will happen. Different combinations of factors at the individual, family,
relationship, community and societal level affect the risk for family violence.
Examples of factors include beliefs about gender and violence and relationship
characteristics as power and control.
Family violence is connected to power imbalances. There is a power and control
wheel and it breaks down the pieces of power the power control is used against
people In a intimate partner violence.
• Intimidation
• Emotional abuse
• Isolation
• Minimizing and denying and blaming
• Using children
• Using male privilege
• Using economic abuse
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Document Summary
Family violence includes intimate partner violence (dating or marriage or with anyone who could be intimate), child maltreatment, and elder abuse. It can be physical, emotional, sexual and financial abuse, as well as neglect. Women have more health issues because of violence. Women are more likely to be killed by partner and have health impacts and more likely to experience violence. 25% of all police reported violent crime but it"s very unreported. Children, women, geriatrics, anyone financial dependent on their partner, people with disabilities, indigenous people (2x more likely), lgbtq community. Violence against women and children is a public health issue of global importance. Global data show that one out of every three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in their lifetime. 8% of men say they have been victims of sexual abuse as children. The health impacts are significant when violence happens. 30% of women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.
