Article Review: “If I Killed You, I’d Get the Kids: Women’s Survival and Protection Work with Child Custody and Access in the Context of Woman Abuse”

Method – Women seek assistance and encouragement from frontline professionals, teachers, health professionals, social workers and police officers that protect adults from the abuses

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 was originally created to protect a target population of children, under the age of 18, from child abuse and neglect; however, over the years this act has been amended and improved to protect a wider population, with many specific subpopulations, over the past 42 years. In the original text of the act, two specific populations are addressed with different goals: reducing the rate of child abuse in children under the age of eighteen, and improving the treatment of children who had been maltreated or neglected (National Low Income Housing Coalition, 2014). It is easy to see that this act and policies within it are aimed at protecting children specifically, yet looking only at the children,

Some of the children become dependent on the government sustenance. Incarcerated women often find that their actions hurt their family “especially of women, destroys the family network. When the men got to prison, potential role models are lost. When women go to prison, families most often fall apart” (Hotelling) while in an institution they might never see their children. As statistics continuously provides that children lived with and cared for by their

Incarceration has been a pending issue amongst western civilization’s history for some time and today continues to raise a wide range of important questions. Incarceration of individuals have become a tremendous tax payer concern along with the incarceration of the drug war, convictions of street gangs, and the rest of the individuals who have broken the law and harmed other innocent individuals. However, the question is always a concern of men incarceration and hardly addressed of women being incarcerated. Not to say that what men can do women can do better, but studies have shown a drastic increase in women becoming incarcerated throughout a range of years. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures research on Children Of Incarcerated Parents by Steve Christian, a study by national survey had reported in August 2008, that during that time, the number of children with a mother in prison increased by 131 percent, from 63,900 to 147,400 (Christian, 2009). Society has always drawn its focus on convicts constantly trying to pin a wrong on an individual’s plate of life, but has never become curious to ask why an individual has become incarcerated and whom it has affected. The drastic increase of women becoming incarcerated have come from numerous of backgrounds in which their choices have led to affect their children as well as their children’s development and in addition affected their own development.

The United Nations reported that each year in Canada an estimated 362,000 children witness or experience family violence these figures are hard to reflect on when we look at the amount of women affected by IPV that could be their mothers (UNICEF, 2006). When we look further at research that shows children who witness violence are more likely to grow up to become victims or abusers themselves this is where many would agree to the fullest that children in an IPV atmosphere should be removed to prevent them any problems in the long run (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2012).

Children are recognized as the future of modern society as the population continues to grow old. Therefore, each and every child has the right to be nurtured in a safe environment (Geffner, 2000). A home riddled with domestic violence is the complete opposite of what Geffner described in her book, Children exposed to domestic violence. According to the 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS), almost 250 000 homes across Canada failed to provide an ideal living environment for their children (citation). Most of the damage comes at the hands of a parent or other relative, and the damage can last a lifetime. An abused child is 35% more likely to end up in violent or abusive relationships as an adult (citation). As stated by the statistic above, the likelihood

and I learned some new things. Whenever I think about domestic violence, I always thought about the violent relationship between intimate partners. This has reminded me that it can also be between people of any form of relationship. Reading about the Bridging Families and Communities program has allowed me to see another perspective on the issue. There are many cases similar to Jane’s, where she is a victim of domestic violence, and she has a child with her abuser.

Explore what support is available to children at risk of abuse and critically examine its impact for safeguarding children.

In her article, “Parent Trap: Are False Abuse Charges a Common Tactic in Child Custody Battles?”, Cathy Young addresses the issue of child custody disputes in relation to the gender wars. She begins with laying out the two differing views of false abuse cases: feminism versus father’s rights activists. Young states that, “Both sides in this controversy--the feminists and the fathers' advocates--see wrongdoing, arrogance, and abuse of power by the courts and the social welfare agencies... Although there seems to be no good alternative to government power in these cases, public scrutiny can be a check on the judges and social workers. But if this scrutiny is based on women good/men bad gender politics, it will hurt parents and children alike

The United States Department of Justice defines domestic violence as “a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another in timate partner.”(President’s Proclamation 2016). Domestic violence includes verbal, physical, sexual, or psychological attacks, even economic coercion. Bancroft et al. (2002 p.1)have claimed that 7 million or more children being exposed by acting of domestic violence each year in United States. Many of this cases are caused by witnessing violence between their caregivers, particularly conflicts between their parents.In part,since 2003, UNICEF,in coorperation with CPFC,Save the children Sweden and plan International,has been working on a

Through the Contemporary Women’s Issues in Canada course, various topics related to gender inequality were discussed. Due to a long history, of sexism and misogyny in many aspects of Canadian society, outdated behaviours and thoughts have prevailed in many aspects of society. Three main topics that are central to achieving gender equality are gendered violence, gender roles and socialization, and child care.

According to the Parliamentary Response to violence against women (2010), “Violence against women and girls remains the most widespread human rights violation worldwide”. By looking into the case of missing and murder women in Canada, women are often blamed for

Any society that is committed to equality between the sexes must then be particularly responsive to crimes that are based on sex or gender. It is that radical feminist theory has impacted society on both the micro and the macro level, resulting women’s movement for equality in bringing social changes impacting the responses to domestic violence issues. Our popular understanding and legal approach to domestic violence has shifted dramatically throughout the years. There has been a shift from the "private" response, where domestic violence was considered a product of relationship dysfunction, to a fully "public" campaign in which the state takes the lead in combating domestic violence through arrest and prosecution of abusers. This shift, I have argued, reflects a radical feminist understanding of domestic violence as patriarchal force and was informed by earlier radical feminist theorizing on

They used informal interviews with victims of domestic abuse and also the people who worked with and helped victims to show how families can often be a violent group and to show the male domination within households as well as demonstrating to the public the “hidden” problem.

Child abuse is horrible and it affects everyone in one way or another. Before 1963, there were no laws to protect the kids from abuse but thanks to social workers and other judicial people, there were laws passed (Pfohl). This paper is going to explain why it is so important for social workers to protect kids by talking about this history of abuse and why social workers need to be around. It will also discuss what social workers do today to prevent kids from being hurt. Social workers are useful in just about every aspect of life but in my opinion this is one of the more important jobs of a social worker because your protecting those of the future. Abuse isn’t just