In 2008 a phone call was made by a young girl saying that girls were being physically and sexually abused at the YFZ Ranch. On April 3, 2008 law enforcement and child protective services went to the ranch and removed 416 children. The courts ruled that CPS was to give the children back to their parents and several of the older men at the ranch were sentenced to 10-30 years in prison for having sexual relations with under aged
Case Study on MADD Debra Pitts August 5, 2014 BSHS355 Lisa Tobler MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers), has been around for more than three decades. It began with a group of mother’s who had experienced the ultimate tragedy, the loss of a child at the hands of a drunk driver and grew into a national crusade against drunk driving. It has changed and created laws in every state and developed many policies along the way. Candy Lightner founded MADD in her living room on May 7, 1980, four days after her daughter had been killed by a drunk driver and one day after burying her. The crime was committed by a repeat offender who had previously been charged with DUI several times before this incident.
This was introduced in the mid 1960’s which allowed women to take control of their own fertility, which saw more women use contraception’s so birth rates decreased as a result of this. Over the past 25 years, 35% of all conceptions for the 18 - 19 age groups have ended in terminations and 20% of all conceptions are legally terminated. Also the legalisation of abortion in 1967 has had a huge impact on the number of birth rates, women were able to terminate their pregnancy & either focus on their career or decide not to have children. For Botting and Dunnell (2000), legal abortions have “contributed to the falling birth rates” amongst various age groups. Moreover because of these birth control techniques family sizes have decreased as more and more women now have more control over births than they did in the 1900’s, so they are choosing to have less children as a result of this.
Running head: POSTMODERN AND FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY: Term Paper Postmodern and Family Systems Therapy: Term Pape Grand Canyon University PSY 460 3/28/2011 Postmodern and Family Systems Therapy In North America 12% of women were sexually abused when they were children, not counting all unreported cases, leaving in its wake, long-term consequences for the survivor to cope with (Hunter, Sally V., 2006). Some of these symptoms include depression, anxiety, panic disorders, phobias, suicidal thoughts, low self-esteem, self-mutilation and toxic shame. This paper covers how various therapy models help female survivors through their recovering process to lead more vital and satisfying lives. Survivors of childhood sexual abuse are forever reminded either consciously or unconsciously, that they are set apart, wounded, or lonely in their self-imposed isolation, realizing that their coping mechanisms are not working for them, many seek help. Each of these therapy methods is unique and all can provide the guidance and support they need.
In Maya Angelou’s life she has defied incredible odds. Her perseverance through tough times seeps through in all of her poetry. Maya was raped when she was 8, similarly to the book Speak we read sophomore year the tragedy makes her totally withdraw from society. Finally one of her grade school teachers encouraged Maya to come out of her shell. In her young adult years she moved to San Francisco and had a variety of jobs, many of which broke the color barrier.
Poor families sometimes abandoned infant daughters in the countryside to avoid paying dowries, the gifts traditionally given by a girl's parents to her husband's family. The practice of allowing baby girls to die, called female infanticide, continued down to the Christian era and had an impact on the size of the female population. Childbearing was dangerous. Tombstones show that the life expectancy of women was 34 years as contrasted with 46 years for men because women often died in childbirth. Some male writers attacked imperial women's education, political power, and sexuality.
The 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues starring Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams is a biographical film of the life of Billie Holiday which Farah Jasmine Griffin says, “creates a myth of Billie Holiday as the drug-addicted, physically abused woman who only sings a sad, sad blues.” The film which is loosely based off of her autobiography of the same name starts with a young Holiday getting arrested and thrown in jail, confined by a straight jacket. Then, a flashback occurs where Holiday is in her young teenage years. It is in this flashback that it is shown that early on in a traumatic event, Billie Holiday is raped. After this, Holiday runs away to her mother’s house in New York, where she begins to work in a brothel. One day, she gets into a nightclub where tries to perform, only to be kicked out by the owner.
The Lovely Bones is a tragic tale of how Susie Salmon and her family dealt with her rape and murder at the age of fourteen. The novel is riveting as it combines violence, love and mystery into one story of a broken family and their healing. The book was written by Alice Sebold who herself was raped during her college years. The story does not have your typical perfect ending but one as Weldon describes, one in which Susie has come to terms with her death. Susie was only fourteen when she was raped and killed by a man she knew.
“The US Justice Department estimated that as of 1998 there were nearly one million incidents of domestic violence per year in the United States.” (Lee and Newton) “Various estimates have put the number of Russian women killed by their husband, partner or a close relative at between 10,000 and 14,000 every year.” (Baczynska) Traditional practices such as; arranged marriages and female genital mutilation that usually end in infections and women or girls go untreated resulting in death. Some countries have a son-preference and women will terminate their pregnancies if the baby is a girl, because sons are preferred. Dowry- related marriages can end in violence, usually death if bride’s family fails to pay the agreed-upon payment for the
Why battered women stay in abusive relationships Violence is an increasing factor in society. Domestic violence incidents in 2005 accounted for 50 percent of the women killed in the United States ( ).Battered women is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as the highly variable symptom complex of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by a woman repeatedly abused especially physically by her mate—called also battered wife syndrome, battered women's syndrome .Women stay in abusive relationships because of lack economic security for herself and children, lack of support from traditional family, fear her children will be taking away, and love. There are choices for women who are in abusive relationships. A women in a violent relationship has only two choices and both are bad( ).She can leave the batterer, therefore losing economic security for herself and children, her position in her community and the partner she loves despite his behavior( ).Many women have never lived anywhere else and leaving security of a family or friend is a big step. The economic reality for women, perhaps those with children is often a bare one.