By: Ellen Au

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• By Ellen Au

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Table of Contents

• What is Family Violence
• Types of Family Violence
• Consequences
• Prevention
• Signs of Abuse
• How to Help Others
• Where to Get Help
• Links
• Bibliography

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What is Family Violence ?

• Dysfunctional families
• Abuse, mistreatment or neglect that adults or
  children may experience in their intimate,
  kinship or dependent relationships.
• Unable to provide their children with emotional
  support that is needed
• Occurs in relationship of family, intimacy,
  dependency, or trust
• Ranges from physical, emotional, financial, and
  sexual abuse, psychological abuse, destruction of
  property and homicide

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Types of Family Violence

• Physical and sexual abuse towards- spousal-
  elder- child- siblings- gay- lesbians-
  heterosexuals

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Causes

• One or both parents have addictions or compulsion
  ( drugs, alcohol, gambling, overworking,
  religion.. Etc)
• Parents use threats of physical violence
• Exploit children and treat them as if they can
  respond to the physical and emotional needs of
  adults
• Parents unable to provide with financial or basic
  physical care of children
• Parents controlling their children belief system
  (religious, political, financial, or personal)
• Disorder of a family member

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Consequences

• Individuals who have been exposed to family
  violence consequences
• The effects may appear immediately, or they may
  emerge over time depending on the nature, extent
  and duration of the abuse,
• Psychological, physical, behavioral, academic,
  sexual, interpersonal, self-perceptual or
  spiritual consequences may happen
• Children who are exposed to violence in their
  homes may experience serious effects that
  threaten their health, safety, behavior,
  emotional and social development, and educational
  progress. Some may need to be removed from their
  home
• Often, it is not recognizable or understood by
  others, which gives the abused ones isolation
  experience fatal consequences such as death

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Consequences

• Abusers consequence
• responsible for the violence and harm theyve
  made ( i.e. life sentence in jail)
• Involvement of criminal justice
• Child welfare system
• Some eventually kills their victims and
  themselves
• Societies consequence
• 4.2 billion per year in social services,
  education, criminal justice, labour, employment,
  health and medical costs in violence against
  women

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Prevention
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Signs of Abuse

• He or she appear anxious, depressed, withdrawn
  and avoids to talk
• Parents or other family members criticizes them
  in front of you, making remarks that make you
  feel uncomfortable
• You see or hear about repeated bruises, broken
  bones, or other injuries that is a result from
  accidents
• Family member try to control this persons every
  move, making them account for each minute spent
  away from home
• They are often late or absent from school, or
  they regularly leave social functions early
  because a family member is waiting

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How to Help Others

• Advise them to go a family therapist
• If pattern continues immediate action is
  necessary, contact or find a trusted adult that
  can help
• Talk to them, advise them, be there for them
• Find out information to help them
• Call a domestic violence hotline (BC Institute
  Against Family Violence Tel [phone] )

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Where to Get Help

• Call 911
• If there is physical or sexual abuse tell a
  teacher, guidance counselor, family doctor, or
  other trusted adult
• BC Institute Against Family Violence Suite 551
  - 409 Granville StreetVancouver, BC V6C 1T2
  Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• Emergency shelters

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Where to Get Help

• National Clearinghouse on Family ViolenceHealthy
  Communities Division Centre for Healthy Human
  DevelopmentPublic Health AgencyAddress Locator
  1907D1Jeanne Mance BuildingTunney's
  PastureOttawa, ONK1A 1B4Telephone
  1-800-267-1291 or [phone]Facsimile
  [phone]Email ncfv-cnivf_at_hs-cs.gc.ca
• Ending Relationships Abuse Society of B.C.
  (formerly ACAM)P.O. Box 440996508 East Hastings
  StreetBurnaby, B.C.V5B 4Y2 Phone [phone]

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Where to Get Help

• BC Institute on Family ViolenceSuite 290, 601 W.
  Cordova StreetVancouver, British ColumbiaV6B
  1G1CanadaTel 669-7055Fax [phone]
• http//www.safekidsbc.ca/helpline.htm toll-free
  1-800-663-9122 Monday to Friday, 830 a.m. to
  430 p.m., call your local district office
  (listed in the blue pages of your phone book), or
  call the Helpline for Children. Dial 310-1234
  (no area code needed).
• Vancouver, North Shore Richmond, call (604)
  660-4927
• Lower Mainland, Burnaby, Delta, Maple Ridge,
  Langley, call [phone]

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Links

• http//canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/fm/familyvfs.htm
  lwhatis
• http//www.fsgv.ca//index.html
• http//www.safekidsbc.ca
• Pictures http//www.celebratesafely.com.au/c
  ontent/images/quote_family_violence.gif http//ww
  w.ywcaofcobb.org/poster.gif http//www.prevention
  .gc.ca/en/library/publications/prevention/issue05/
  images/Iss05-14.jpg http//www.growing.com/nonvio
  lent/council/conference/2001/poster.jpg
• http//www.project-safe.org/images/worriedwoman_
  big.jpg

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Bibliography