Transcript Domestic Violence - MHS Business & Technology Department

Watch & Listen
• Very violent, this is a ‘clean’ version
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN1qqZcv
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• How did it make you feel?
• If your were from the future and you found
this song, what would you conclude about
relationships?
WEEK 8
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Monday – Work
Tuesday – Over
Domestic Violence
Wednesday –
Vocabulary & Chapter
21 (Ownership)
 Skip to Chapter 24,
 Video on Schivo
Thursday – 24 (Wills)
Friday – Over 23
(Insurance)
WEEK 9
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Monday – Speaker
Tuesday – Speaker
Wednesday – Over
22 (Renting)
Thursday – Review
Game & Packet
Friday – Test over
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18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24
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Online find
Statistics on Domestic Violence
 Where you can go for help
 Laws in States or other countries about
Domestic Violence
 Any other facts you think would add to the
conversation
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Read & Finish notes for Chapter 21
Complete Vocabulary on Page 294
Domestic Abuse
• Look online
– Find statistics about
domestic abuse
– Find resources to
protect / help you if
you are being abused
– Find laws about
domestic abuse
– Find examples of
domestic abuse cases
On average, 21% of female victims and 10% of male
victims of nonfatal partner violence contact an outside
agency for assistance
Examples
• Media focuses on the bad, what cases have
you heard of?
– Chris Brown & Rihanna
– Joe Jackson & his kids
– Robert Blake
– Jerry Springer show
What is abuse?
• To use wrongly or improperly; misuse
• To treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive
way
• To speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or
about
• Rape or sexual assault
Emotional Abuse
•Anything done to scare
•Speeding through traffic, playing with weapons, taking pills, making
threats
•Faking physical ailments to get you to stay
•Taking away control of where you go and who you see / Isolating you
from friends & family
•Taking control of your sleep patterns by waking you up in the middle of
the night to listen to 2-3 hours of B.S. or being so terrorized that a pindrop would wake you
•Keeping you malnourished or in constant fear
•Saying all your friends are losers or everyone has “ulterior motives” or
are using you
•Minimizing or ignoring your feelings
•Ridiculing or insulting your most valued beliefs, religion, race, heritage,
or class
•Withholding approval, appreciation, or affection as punishment
•Continually criticizing you, calling you names, shouting at you
•Controlling your money
•Manipulating you with contradictions
•Threatening to kidnap / hurt your children if you leave
Physical Abuse
•Slapping / hitting of any kind, choking, biting
•Pushing or shoving
•Holding you to keep you from leaving
•Throwing objects at
•Locking you out of the house
•Abandoning you in dangerous places
•Refusing you help when you are sick, injured, pregnant
•Subjecting you to reckless driving
•Forcing you off the road or keeping you from driving
•Threatening you or hurting you with a weapon
•Raping you
Sexual Abuse
•Insisting on unwanted and uncomfortable
touching
•Forcing you to strip when you don't want to
•Forcing sex with them or others or forcing you
to watch others
•Forcing sex after beating
•Forcing particular unwanted sexual acts
•Forcing sex when you are sick or it is a danger
to your health
•Forcing sex for the purpose of hurting you with
objects or weapons
•Committing sadistic sexual acts
Domestic Abuse Continued
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One in four women (25%) has experienced domestic violence in her lifetime
Nearly three out of four (74%) of Americans personally know someone who is or
has been a victim of domestic violence
Estimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former
spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend to 3 million women who are physically abused by
their husband or boyfriend per year
On average, more than three women and one man are murdered by their intimate
partners in this country every day
The health-related costs of intimate partner violence exceed $5.8 billion each year.
Of that amount, nearly $4.1 billion are for direct medical and mental health care
services, and nearly $1.8 billion are for the indirect costs of lost productivity or
wages
Approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically
and/or sexually abused by a dating partner
In a national survey of American families, 50% of the men who frequently
assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children
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• MSU Safe House, Eve
• www.michigan.gov/datingviolence
www.michigan.gov/domesticviolence
• State Police
– Dating Violence - 112080 bytes
– Domestic Violence - 72319 bytes
– Personal Protection Orders - 186380 bytes
– Stalking - 181005 bytes
History
• Marital Rape: Illegal in all 50 State July 1993
• 1800s most states had common law that said:
– A husband had the legal right to control his wife
and all her possessions
• 1974, the first shelter for battered women was
established
• 1994, under the Victims of Crime Act, the Violence
Against Women Act was passed
• Men still are not fully protected
– Why?
• Women accounted for 85% of the victims of
intimate partner violence, men for approximately
15%.
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Laws
• Violence Against Women Act
– “Gender-motivated crimes” is considered a “violation of
women’s civil rights” and that the victim has a “legal right
to sue the perpetrator”
– Makes restraining orders valid across state lines
• The Brady Bill
– Makes it illegal for convicted domestic violence offenders
to buy a handgun
– Half of all states, including Texas, are now enforcing
mandatory arrest laws
– This require the police to arrest someone while on a
domestic violence call assuming there is “probable cause”
of assault
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Simulation
• We have Mike, Janet, Lisa Marie, & Jermaine
– Mike & Janet have been dating for 5 months at
Nosam High School
– Mike is in 12th grade & just hit 18
– Janet is in 10th grade & is 16
– Mike & Jermaine are starters on the basketball
teem
– Janet & Lisa have been best friends since
Kindergarten and share everything but have not
talked since Janet & Mike started to date
Simulation Wrap-Up
• Is this a healthy relationship?
• What were the problems you could identify?
• What could be done & by who to improve the
situation?
• How would you react if someone treated you
this way?
• How would you react if your friend where
acting / being treated this way?
Teen Abuse Handout
Sources
• Statistics: http://www.dvrcor.org/domestic/violence/resources/C61/