Family Violence - Test 1 questions with
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Family Violence -Correct Answer-abuse can be physical, psychological, emotional, as well as financial. It is not limited to individuals whose relationships meet the legal definitions of family.
Family Violence Theory -Correct Answer-States that families revolve around relationships based on not only obligations, but also status and power
people with more resources tend to be abuse perpetrators (parents, children of the elderly)
What is the most widely accepted theoretical framework among scholars of family violence -Correct Answer-The family violence theory
Feminist Theory -Correct Answer-assumes primarily that gender stratification is universal and produces and unequal system which privileges men and hinders women
What does the feminist theory focus on -Correct Answer-ways that family violence is a gendered phenomenon
"gender based violence" -Correct Answer-calls attention to both the gender of the victim and the perpetrator
Race, class & gender theory -Correct Answer-built on the assumption that there are multiple systems of oppression that collaboratively produce systems of stratification and therefore inequality every system of domination as a counter-system of privilege
Social structures -Correct Answer-do not focus on the individual focuses on how societal institutions (economy and religion) help shape family violence
The Economy -Correct Answer-IPV increased substantially during the recession from 2007-2009 Money is linked to power i.e. men placing domestic expectations on women in exchange for providing their financial need
Cultural Norms -Correct Answer-men should be the breadwinners when men feel their masculinity is threatened, they respond with violence
Religion -Correct Answer-many religions have rigid expectations for female submission, but also the behaviors of children and parents religion supports norms of masculinity and femininity sexual abuse of women/children by religious leaders
Child abuse -Correct Answer-rarely a single physical attack or a single act of deprivation or molestation
child abuse was seen as a 'family problem' up until what point -Correct Answer-the late 1970s and early 1980s
Code of Hammurabi -Correct Answer-stated that the father had full control of his children until they married. This even included the right to sell the children
Ancient Greece --- Child abuse -Correct Answer-it was condoned to kill a newborn if it was cripple or unhealthy. Aristotle even recommended a law prohibiting cripple children be raised
Roman Empire --- Child Abuse -Correct Answer-an infant was allowed to live according to their potential to the family
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Family Violence -Correct Answer-abuse can be physical, psychological, emotional, as well as financial. It is not limited to individuals whose relationships meet the legal definitions of family.
Family Violence Theory -Correct Answer-States that families revolve around relationships based on not only obligations, but also status and power
people with more resources tend to be abuse perpetrators (parents, children of the elderly)
What is the most widely accepted theoretical framework among scholars of family violence -Correct Answer-The family violence theory
Feminist Theory -Correct Answer-assumes primarily that gender stratification is universal and produces and unequal system which privileges men and hinders women
What does the feminist theory focus on -Correct Answer-ways that family violence is a gendered phenomenon
"gender based violence" -Correct Answer-calls attention to both the gender of the victim and the perpetrator
Race, class & gender theory -Correct Answer-built on the assumption that there are multiple systems of oppression that collaboratively produce systems of stratification and therefore inequality every system of domination as a counter-system of privilege
Social structures -Correct Answer-do not focus on the individual focuses on how societal institutions (economy and religion) help shape family violence
The Economy -Correct Answer-IPV increased substantially during the recession from 2007-2009 Money is linked to power i.e. men placing domestic expectations on women in exchange for providing their financial need
Cultural Norms -Correct Answer-men should be the breadwinners when men feel their masculinity is threatened, they respond with violence
Religion -Correct Answer-many religions have rigid expectations for female submission, but also the behaviors of children and parents religion supports norms of masculinity and femininity sexual abuse of women/children by religious leaders
Child abuse -Correct Answer-rarely a single physical attack or a single act of deprivation or molestation
child abuse was seen as a 'family problem' up until what point -Correct Answer-the late 1970s and early 1980s
Code of Hammurabi -Correct Answer-stated that the father had full control of his children until they married. This even included the right to sell the children
Ancient Greece --- Child abuse -Correct Answer-it was condoned to kill a newborn if it was cripple or unhealthy. Aristotle even recommended a law prohibiting cripple children be raised
Roman Empire --- Child Abuse -Correct Answer-an infant was allowed to live according to their potential to the family
