Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being
murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that
intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports
to police? Or that child or elder abuse is more common than you
might imagine? Written for students, instructors, practitioners,
and advocates in all related fields, this expanded and updated
third edition of Cruel But Not Unusual: Violence in Families in
Canada offers the latest research, thinking, and strategies to
address this hard reality in Canada today. Violence takes many
forms inside relationships and families, and the systems charged
with responding and helping can actually add to the harm, further
isolating and endangering victims. Nowhere is this more evident
than in intentionally marginalized communities, such as Indigenous,
Black, people of colour, LGBTQI2S+, people with disabilities, and
immigrant, refugee, and non-status women. From recommendations on
resisting anti-Black state-sanctioned violence, to a call to action
on partner abuse within LGBTQI2S+ communities, the book offers bold
ideas for moving forward, highlighting the work of researchers and
activists from these communities. Using a range of perspectives
(feminist, trauma-informed, intersectional, anti-oppression) and
including diverse couple and family relationships and settings
(foster care, group homes, institutions), the contributors track
violence across the life course, addressing the impact on the
brain, trauma, coercive control, resilience, disclosing abuse, the
MeToo movement, self-care, and providing practical case examples
and guidelines for working with children, youth, adults, couples,
families, and groups. The result is an authoritative source that
offers new insights and approaches to inform understanding, policy,
practice, and prevention.
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