SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Martina Mcbride, Gender Role, Dependency Ratio
Thursday 4/19/18
Chapter 12 Part 2
• Domestic violence music video
o Independence Day- Martina McBride
• Intimate Partner violence
o Abuse that occurs between people in a close relationship
o 36% of women an 29% of men have been victims
o The rate of IPV declined 67% from 1994 to 2012
• Reasons for intimate partner violence
o Macro-level
▪ Unemployment and poverty increase the likelihood of financial stress and
violence
▪ The absence of legal or social sanctions and lack of shelters discouraged escape
▪ In some communities violence is normalized
o Demographic
▪ Begins at a young age
▪ Women living with an annual income less than $7500 are nearly 7 times as likely
to be abused as those living in households with an income of 75000 or more
o Micro-level
▪ Heavy alcohol or drug use
▪ Have more children than they can afford
▪ Raised in a violent house hold. Has low self-esteem. And a controlling
personality
▪ Most com on disputes escalating to violence regard:
• Gender role expectation
• Money
• Children
• Infidelity
• Child maltreatment music video
o Runaway love- Ludacris
• Child Maltreatment
o Includes a broad range of behaviors that place a child at serious risk or result in serious
harm, including:
▪ Physical and sexual abuse
▪ Neglect
▪ Emotional mistreatment
o Rates of child mistreatment have decreased since 2007
o 9 per 1000 U.S. children are victims
o 81% of perpetrators are parents
• Reasons for child mistreatment
o Macro-level
▪ Economic hardship
▪ Unemployment
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