WGS 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11/20: Intimate Partner Violence, Child Care, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 101
• Professor: Bufalino, Jamie

Document Summary

Battered women"s shelter is temporary residence where victims of domestic violence and their children who have nowhere else to go escape violent living situations. Domestic violence, especially towards women, was not recognized as a problem until mid-1970s. Battered women"s shelters emerge from anti-rape movement. The first recorded battered women"s shelter was chiswick. Women"s aid, which was originally began when one woman asked for shelter, and news quickly grew. In the us, first was 1974 in st. paul, after their telephone line was full of women wanting to know how to escape domestic violence, and people opened their homes as temporary shelters. In the us, it was for the poorest women, while in the uk it was open to everyone. Funding usually came from rent, social security and temporary government funding. Domestic violence was originally seen as a private trouble, because men were in charge of their families.