By Ramona Alaggia PhD, Cathy Vine
Violence in households and intimate relationships impacts an important share of the population—from very children to the aged. even supposing nobody is resistant to violence, a few teams are fairly weak. merciless yet commonplace: Violence in Canadian households is the 1st e-book to provide a countrywide survey of the most recent study and perform, and it displays at the patriarchal roots and societal stipulations in Canada that experience ended in the long-standing abuse of girls and kids. whereas feminist theories supply an overarching framework, a huge variety of ways is accessible to ascertain and reply to serious elements of this critical social challenge. themes contain: systemic oppression of Aboriginal households and groups; violence in a francophone minority context; baby corporal punishment; abuse within the lives of individuals with disabilities; the objectification of older adults; mom blaming; intimate violence in same-sex relationships; and new techniques to fixing the matter of violence in Canadian households.
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I became the co-ordinator of the program and, with other service providers, facilitated all of the circles and other activities for women, children, and men. Early in the service implementation, women and children attended a circle together to give the program an Aboriginal name. ” The Mino-Yaa-Daa Program offered services to children on a rotating basis according to age. It is important that children feel special, so 38 Baskin / Systemic oppression, violence, and healing [ i–1 ] the facilitators needed to be supportive and encouraging.
Comparison with feminist analysis The Aboriginal analysis of family violence as viewed from a historical context, which examines broader society’s role in the problem, has much in common with a feminist analysis of woman abuse. A feminist analysis of woman abuse extends its view of violence to include the relationship between the family and the broader social, economic, and political environment. By including social factors, a feminist analysis does not reduce the causes of woman abuse exclusively to intra-familial factors.
Twenty-five percent of Aboriginal women were assaulted by a current or former spouse between 1997 and 2001—twice the rate for Aboriginal men and three times the rate for non-Aboriginal women and men (Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 2001). 8 per million (Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 2001). The Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (2001) is the first nationwide study to examine the incidence of reported child abuse cases. Aboriginal children and families were identified as a major group to examine because of concerns about overrepresentation of these children in the child welfare system.