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Fam Viol Intro
Checking in students understanding of FV prior to commencing subject
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Family violence does not have lasting effects" (now flip the card) | FV has lasting and profound effects that can lead to death, disabilities, mental illness and health problems. Traumatic experiences whether one event or ongoing can reconfigure a person's sense of self, safety and identity. |
| "Only physical and sexual violence constitute family violence" (now flip the card) | Family violence can include behaviours such as regularly putting someone down using verbal abuse, making threats, using physical and sexual violence, damaging property, and controlling or keeping tabs on who someone sees, what they do and where they go |
| It just happens to people in current relationships? (now flip the card) | No. FV can be perpetrated by a former partner or a family member outside the context of an intimate, heterosexual or immediate family relationship (eg. kin) : •same-sex relationship • to an older person •by a carer •child/adoles son or daughter |
| "Family violence is a result of alcohol and drugs" | Incorrect. FV is a gross violation of human rights and part to a range of tactics. Key driving factors remain as the unequal distribution of power and resources between men and women; and the adherence to rigidity defined gender roles and identities. |
| Only some cultures experience family violence | Incorrect . It can occur in any culture, it also important that its definition recognises and reflects the perspectives and realities of all communities, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and Indigenous communities. |
| Women can easily leave the violent partner should they choose. | Incorrect. Leaving is point of highest risk for safety of women and children. Controlling behaviours are also often accompanied by threats (or past actions) of direct harm to self and person, children, animals other family members or belongings. |
| Family violence victims and perpetrators are limited to only people of low socioeconomic or disadvantaged backgrounds | No. all areas of society are affected ~ regardless of location, socioeconomic and health status, age, culture, gender, sexual identity, ability, ethnicity or religion of ‘victim’ or ‘perpetrator’. |
| Women are equally perpetrators of violence | FV is prominently violence against women & child by males. Sons, brothers and community members are also suffering unacceptable violence, but overwhelmingly at the hands of other males. FV is a gendered crime disproportionately affects women & children |
| The Victorian Commission has recommended the definition of family violence include forced marriage and dowry-related abuse as statutory examples of family violence in the Family Violence Protection Act. | Correct. There are some specific forms of FV experienced by women in some CALD communities eg. , forced marriage, female genital mutilation & dowry-related violence. These are not readily recognised as constituting family violence |
| Monitoring access to others and a person’s movements (including phone and social media) or Stalking & spying behaviours – loitering, hanging around a person’s work are not considered factors of Family Violence | incorrect. The Family Victorian Protection Act, 2008 (Vic). Has extended to include some of these insidious social controls that humiliate and intimidate victims. |
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