2. Types of Families
•Nuclear Families
•Single Parental Families
•Cross-Generational
•Adoptive/Foster Families
•Never Married
•Blended
•Same-sex Parents
3. Factors Leading to Problems
•Money
• Difference of life styles
• Morals
• Dominant Figure and Time
4. Money
• When Extended families get involved with money, houses in other
people names, mortgages etc. it creates discomfort when money is
borrowed and then ask for, sometimes Family are the worst people
to owe money to.
5. Difference of Life styles
• This applies more to blended families, when you have two cultures
mixed in a home sometimes values and how things get done are not
accepted amongst all family members
6. Time
• Coming from Parents more so, however children and teens may not
make enough time for their parents as well.
• However for parents, they work so much to make their kids have a
better life than theirs but they tend to neglect, work too much and
forget to give their children attention.
7. Dominant Figure
• Mainly the male, like to be the dominant figure of the family just
like in nature. Sometimes with showing this dominance comes
abuse to his or her own family.
8. Types of Family Abuse
•Domestic Abuse
•Child Abuse
•Parental Abuse
•Sexual Abuse
9. Domestic Abuse
• In Canada people will be physically abused, mentally, neglected and
sexually assaulted and killed in their own homes by a family
member before anyone else or a total stranger(Stats Canada)
• Emotional Abuse “ using negative labels”
• Spousal Violence in the homes
• Women experience more violence than men do
• 40% of women and 34% of men have been pushed, slapped or
shoved
• 23% of women and 15% of men have been beat, choked gun/knifed
10.
11. Child Abuse
• Child Abuse “ physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, neglect,
maltreatment of a child under the age of 18 by a person who is
responsible for the child’s welfare”(Mooney, Understanding Social
Problems)
12. Child Abuse
• Girls between the age of 13-17 age group were the highest seen in
abuse in the home sexually or physically
• 40% Child abuse reported was Neglect
•
• 31% Child abuse reported was Physical abuse
•
• 19% Child Abuse reported was Emotional Maltreatment
•
• 10% Child Abuse reported was Sexual Abuse
• STATISTICS CANADA www.statistics.ca
13. There’s Help Out There
•Assaulted Women’s Help Line
1.866.863.0511
•Kids help Line
• 1 800 668 6868
•Men's Help Line
• 1-866-531-2600
