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    Policy            Assignment Three: Canadian Human Rights Report Topic – Violence against immigrant women in South Asian, African and Korean communities Instructor: Jane Birbeck March 21st, 2011 Annotated Bibliography: Violence against Immigrant Women in South Asian, African and Korean Communities An annotated bibliography Annotated Bibliography Introduction This paper analyzes the phenomenon of violence against immigrant women, specifically within South Asian, African and Korean

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    Domestic violence does not only effect the women being harmed it effects the children and the family also. It takes a toll on Families or individuals who have experienced domestic violence, Victims are in the process of healing both physically and emotionally from multiple traumas. These traumas can have various effects on the mind, body and spirit to anyone associated with the abuse. Children are still developing and learning, domestic abuse is very impactful and influences them in the wrong way

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    In America, family violence such as child abuse and spousal abuse which is mostly against women has been known to be a silent crime. There has been a high percentage of cases against women and an estimated one half of all child abuse cases have been unreported (Pepler, 1989). In the late twentieth century, feminist groups began a campaign to accomplish a goal to eliminate family violence by changing people’s realization to conclude that no victim should leave a crime unsaid .in addition, twenty-eight

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    Families who face domestic violence at home are more likely to have children with mental health problems than are parents who do not face domestic violence at home. A children being witness of domestic violence is also traumatic. Children are very vulnerable if they are facing their parents having domestic violence. For a child to witness a domestic violence is seeing actual incidents, hearing fighting noises, observing the physical abuse such as blood, tears, and broken items, and being aware of

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    In ethology area, family violence can be classified into four types: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and economical abuse. Physical abuse is batter that harm body directly, involving contact cause pain, injury, and other physical suffering. Physical violence is identified as the worst behavior of other abusive behavior, such as threats and limitations of victims self-determination through isolation, manipulation and other restriction of personal freedom. Physical abuse is the most common

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    Introduction Family violence and abuse can happen through various ways and because of different life events. In the case of Jeff, a 10-year-old boy (see Appendix A for full case study) he was just starting to be abused, he was starting to be neglected and had mild physical abuse done on him in the way of grabbing of the arm which left marks. His principle, Joe saw the marks and along with his social withdrawal and having a hard time recently with school he thought he better report it. This case study

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    Domestic Violence on Children and Family Relationships There are various ways in which domestic violence within the home affects family relationships. Children may try to protect an abused parent by refusing to leave the parent alone, getting in the middle of an abusive event, calling for help, or drawing attention to themselves by bad behavior (Tsavoussis, 2014). A child may also attempt to reunite or even fix their family by trying to be perfect or always tending to younger siblings. Some children

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    domestic violence physically, psychologically and socially affects women, men and their families. In addition, the abuse usually is an attempt by one partner to exert control through pressure, fear, verbal abuse or threats of violence. Therefore, the family system concepts theory “understanding the significance of the environmental context of the family system is the key to assessing family process and outcomes” Thomlison, 2010, p. 45). The family system “concept 1 theory is the family as a system

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    Introduction Learning about family violence and child abuse has open doors to understanding the long term or unseen effects of violence and child abuse within the household. For each family violence can be seen as domestic parental violence or childhood sexual abuse, but either way the outcome is usually consequential for all parties involved. After viewing the movie “Precious” one can accurately state that the movie displays multiple effects and examples of family violence and child abuse. But just

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    Many of the families in my community do not have the appropriate resources and motivation to overcome their obstacles. The most comment challenges and barriers with family exposed to are religion, culture, unemployment and scare to leave the partner. I am able to relate to those challenges. I was raised catholic but haven’t practiced the religion is years. I home felt conflicted with the religion for a long time. Religion is a big part of the family believes, the respect of marriage and values

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