Domestic Violence and Neglected Children

Domestic violence and neglected children.

I. Topic review.

1. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive and threatening behaviors that may include physical, emotional, economic and sexual violence as well as intimidation, isolation and coercion.

|2. Emotional abuse is making the person feel hurt or bad - |
|like constantly putting the other parent down or making     |
|them feel stupid. It can include emotional blackmail, like |
|threatening to commit suicide if their partner leaves.     |


Social abuse is when one parent stops the other from seeing their friends or family, or from having a job. It can include when one parent constantly checks up on where the other is, or follows or stalks them.

|Financial abuse is when one parent takes control of the     |
|money in the household, and doesn't let the other parent   |
|have any money.                                             |
|Sexual abuse is when one person makes the other do sexual   |
|things that they don't want to do. No one has the right to |
|force someone else into sexual contact - even if they are   |
|married.                                                    |
|                                                           |
|Physical abuse is when one parent hits, pushes, throws     |
|things, smashes things, or threatens to physically hurt the|
|other.                                                     |
|                                                           |
|Abuse and violence is wrong. Many forms of abuse are       |
|against the law.                                           |


3. According to information that the Russian government submitted to the UN, in 2008 there were 21 crisis centers operating under the jurisdiction of social welfare agencies, 119 crisis units for women within social service institutions and 22 "hostels for women with minor children" 

The organization: The National Centre for the Prevention of Violence, Ministry of Health Care and Social Protection.

4. The Russian...