HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Vancouver Sun, Emergency Department, Psychological Abuse
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In canada, hospitals question women as to cause of injuries but not men: fearful injured men seeking help for domestic violence at local shelters were told they were the real batterers . They had experienced choking, being knifed, and burned with scalding water. Domestic abuse with a female victim has been politicized, called violence against women (in general). More realistically, it is violence against a woman with a psychological rather than a political motive by the man. Interestingly, intimate-partner lesbian violence, proportionally more common than in heterosexual relationships, is not called violence against women. Otherwise, they would be open to policies that could replace and improve our current failed policies of mandatory arrest and. Psychoeducational interventions. the latter has a near-zero cure rate: we need to focus on early intervention, teaching children empathy and conflict resolution skills. We need to include marital therapists and couples counsellors in the intervention solution.
