Social Abuse
spousal abuse ✔✔✔refers to the violence or mistreatment that a woman or a man may
experience at the hands of a marital, common-law or same-sex partner.
risk factors for abuse ✔✔✔pregnant,
disabled,
ending or thinking about ending a relationship
risk factors for abuse ✔✔✔newly marriad,
young,
living in a low-income household,
living with an unemployed man,
reasons for infideltiy ✔✔✔Needs are not being met in marriage
Excitement
Narcissistically gratifying
cost of domestic violence ✔✔✔4.2 billion a year in Canada- health, justice, social services,
employment
Divorce Act 1968 ✔✔✔Addiction to drugs, alcohol
Desertion for not less than 5 years
Separation for not less than 3 years
Marital offence - adultery, physical, mental, cruelty
Divorce Act 1985 ✔✔✔Mental or physical cruelty
Adultery
Living separate for 1 year
Reasons for divorce ✔✔✔Different values & beliefs
Abuse - physical & emotional
Alcohol & drugs
Infidelity
Career-related conflict
divorced parent risk factors ✔✔✔diminished parenting, parents burdened emotionally,
continued parental conflict, genetics
spousal abuse ✔✔✔refers to the violence or mistreatment that a woman or a man may
experience at the hands of a marital, common-law or same-sex partner.
risk factors for abuse ✔✔✔pregnant,
disabled,
ending or thinking about ending a relationship
risk factors for abuse ✔✔✔newly marriad,
young,
living in a low-income household,
living with an unemployed man,
reasons for infideltiy ✔✔✔Needs are not being met in marriage
Excitement
Narcissistically gratifying
cost of domestic violence ✔✔✔4.2 billion a year in Canada- health, justice, social services,
employment
Divorce Act 1968 ✔✔✔Addiction to drugs, alcohol
Desertion for not less than 5 years
Separation for not less than 3 years
Marital offence - adultery, physical, mental, cruelty
Divorce Act 1985 ✔✔✔Mental or physical cruelty
Adultery
Living separate for 1 year
Reasons for divorce ✔✔✔Different values & beliefs
Abuse - physical & emotional
Alcohol & drugs
Infidelity
Career-related conflict
divorced parent risk factors ✔✔✔diminished parenting, parents burdened emotionally,
continued parental conflict, genetics
