social worky

Although not all social workers are liberal, I am. This is my perspective on what it means to be involved in social work.

Posts tagged domestic violence

Nov 30

Abuse Isn't Always a Bruise

One in four callers to the National Domestic Abuse hotline said that their partners had tried to force them to become pregnant. Why? As one woman stated, “Its like he wants to own me from the inside out.” Having a baby is the perfect tie that binds. These type of abusers want to create a circumstance in which their partner is dependent on him.

Feb 18

“An undocumented Florida woman who helped her sister report domestic violence now faces an order of deportation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even though her lawyers say she never should have been detected by ICE agents in the first place. The woman, Rita Cote, 25, is married to a U.S. citizen and has four children, all of them citizens. She has no criminal record. But when police arrived to respond to the domestic-violence call on Feb. 16, 2009, law enforcement instead took Cote into custody, detained her for a week and handed her over to ICE. Cote now faces deportation at any time to her native Honduras, which she fled as a child in 1998 to escape Hurricane Mitch and its aftermath. If deported, she could be separated from her husband and children for up to a decade.” Honduran Immigrant Faces Deportation After Helping Her Sister Report Domestic Violence

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Feb 7

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Dec 8

“When women kill - and they do so at astonishingly lower rates than men who commit 85% of all homicides - the vast majority kill family members, usually men who have battered them for years. As many as 90% of the women in jail today for killing men had been battered by those men. (Allison Bass, “Women far less likely to kill than men; no one sure why,” The Boston Globe, February 24, 1992, p. 27)” Domestic Violence Statistics - Battered Women Who Kill (via radicallyhottoff)

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Nov 23

redguard:

Hip Hop contra el Machismo, Bronx, NY

So good.

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Nov 17

stribs:

Infographic: Percentage of Women Who Believe It’s OK for Husbands to Hit Them

Source: UNICEF Childinfo (via thesocietypages.org)

It’s also important to remember that although these are non-Western countries, that we shouldn’t demonize them as backwards. This is a worldwide problem that occurs in every country regardless of GDP, culture, or religion.

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