Identifying abuse: The warning signs
About This Episode
Domestic violence can be seen everywhere. It doesn’t discriminate against race, gender, religion or economic status. It entails more than just physical violence and includes any type of psychological, emotional, or spiritual maltreatment based on the abuser’s desire to exercise power and control over his or her victim. For this reason, it is important to talk to your children about domestic abuse and healthy relationships.
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Domestic violence crosses all differences in socioeconomic status and race to impact large swaths of the population. It entails more than just physical violence and includes any type of psychological, emotional, or spiritual maltreatment based on the abuser’s desire to exercise power and control over his or her victim. For this reason, it is important to talk to your children about domestic abuse and take other measures to protect them from potential abusers. Abusers tend to prey on people with low self-confidence who are easy to manipulate. Look for behaviors that demonstrate a desire to control, isolate, or shame a partner as signals that abuse is taking place. Finally, demonstrate respectful and loving treatment in your own relationships, including that which you have with your children and partner. If a child is subjected to verbal put downs, threats, and physical violence by his or her parents, that child will not be able to recognize when abuse is occurring in a romantic relationship.
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What makes people susceptible to abuse? How can we help prevent our children from becoming victims?
THIS WEEK'S ACTION
- Use the tools below to familiarize yourself and your children with the signs of abusive relationships.
- Have conversations throughout your child’s development about how to have loving and healthy relationships.
- Trust your feelings and teach your children to do the same. Make sure you both know that it is not okay for a relationship to feel oppressive. If it does, it’s time to run away and get help.
TOOLS
The following tools can help you along the way.
The Struggle is Real podcast is based off the book, The Struggle is Real: Parenting in the 21st Century written by Dr. Alicia La Hoz & Dr. Paul Meier.
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