SOC 4610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychological Abuse, Child Neglect, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Document Summary
Assumptions: common view that families are safe places for men, women, and children, families are idealized, violence may be occurring in families behind closed doors, hidden. Ignored: unnoticed, definitions of family violence lack agreement, statistics on family violence are underestimates and should be viewed cautiously. Intimates perpetrated the majority of rapes in 2006 (60. 9%: 22% of women and 7% of men report experiencing ipv at some point in their lives. Intrafamilial fatal abuse: approximately 1760 children died from abuse and neglect in 2007. Males are more likely to be killed by unknown assailants (37%) or known acquaintances (35%: homicide was the 4th leading cause of death for children ages 1-11. Why are families violent: structural factors, amount of time spend together, power differentials, dependency issues. Inability to fight back: most family relationships are protected by law and not easily served, privacy and autonomy granted to families.
