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The Frustrations Of Family Violence Social Work: An Historical Critique, Linda Gordon
The Frustrations Of Family Violence Social Work: An Historical Critique, Linda Gordon
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Contrary to the view that social work has been characterized by substantial shifts in treatment methods over the last hundred years, an historical study of case records from child protection agencies in Boston, 1880 to 1960, revealed very little improvement or change in the social-work response to family violence cases. The continuity in socialwork response rested, at its best, on workers' common-sense apprehension of the complex (intrapsychic, relational, and environmental) causes of family violence, and, at worst, on several constricting ideologies about proper family life: gender assumptions that made women's domesticity and mothering essential; and a public/private dichotomy which assumed …
Spruce Run News (Summer 1988), Spruce Run Staff
Spruce Run News (Summer 1988), Spruce Run Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Factors Involved In Battered Women's Decision To Leave Their Abusive Partners: Shelter Research In The Southeast, Mary Ellen Miles
Factors Involved In Battered Women's Decision To Leave Their Abusive Partners: Shelter Research In The Southeast, Mary Ellen Miles
Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations
This paper is an examination of some of the factors involved in battered women's decision to leave their partners. A review of past literature on battering, suggests factors that account for the women's decision: 1. the more financially dependent (whether actual or perceived) the battered woman is on the batterer, the more likely the woman will stay in the violent relationship regardless of the shelter services offered; 2. women with a teenage child or children will be more likely to leave the violent relationship than women without teenage children; 3 . women who were abused as children will be more …
Spruce Run News (Winter 1988), Spruce Run Staff
Spruce Run News (Winter 1988), Spruce Run Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.