This document discusses violence in the home and its causes and effects. It defines different types of violence including physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, cultural, and spiritual violence. It outlines causes such as early learning experiences, unrealistic expectations, economic stress, lack of social support, and substance abuse. Effects include lack of trust, feelings of worthlessness, trouble regulating emotions, and continuing the cycle of abuse. It provides tips for coping such as talking about feelings, counseling, and creating a safe environment. Laws around child abuse and protection orders are also summarized.

1. VIOLENCE IN THE HOMES
Ayoma, Karla Caressa
Bajana, Sheema
Barber, Angela Grace
Flores, Cil Antonette
Muñoz, Regina

5. Violence
• Behavior involving physical force intended to
hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
• Strength of emotion or an unpleasant or
destructive natural force.

6. Domestic Violence
the inflicting of physical injury by one family or
household member on another; also : a
repeated or habitual pattern of such behavior

7. Types of Violence
• Physical Violence
- occurs when someone uses a part of their body or an
object to control your actions.
Examples : pinching, hair-pulling, slapping,
punching, arm twisting

8. • Sexual Violence
- occurs when someone forces you to take
part in sexual activity when you do not want
to.
Examples: touching you in a sexual manner
against your will (kissing, grabbing, fondling),
forced sexual intercourse, forcing you to
perform sexual acts you find degrading or
painful

9. • Emotional Violence
– occurs when someone says or does something to
make you feel stupid or worthless.
Examples: name calling, constant criticism,
blaming all relationship problems on you,
humiliating or belittling you in front of others

10. • Psychological Violence
– occurs when someone uses threats and causes
fear in you to gain control
Examples: threatening to harm you, your
children or your family if you leave,
threatening to harm themselves, threats of
violence, threats of abandonment

11. • Cultural Violence
– occurs when you are harmed as a result of
practices condoned by your culture, religion or
tradition.
Examples: female circumcision, rape-marriage,
sexual slavery.

12. • Spiritual Violence
– occurs when someone uses your religious or spiritual
beliefs to manipulate, dominate, or control you.
Examples: trying to prevent you from practicing
your religious or spiritual beliefs, taking fun of
your religious or spiritual beliefs

13. Causes of violence

14. • Early learning experiences:
This factor is sometimes described as the "life
cycle" of abuse. Many abusive parents were
themselves abused as children and have
learned to see hurtful behavior as normal
childrearing. At the other end of the life cycle,
some adults who abuse their elderly parent
are paying back the parent for abusing them
in their early years.

15. • Ignorance of developmental timetables:
Some parents have unrealistic expectations of
children in terms of the appropriate age for
toilet training, feeding themselves, and similar
milestones, and attack their children for not
meeting these expectations.

16. • Economic stress:
Many caregivers cannot afford part-time day
care for children or dependent elderly parents,
which would relieve some of their emotional
strain. Even middle-class families can be
financially stressed if they find themselves
responsible for the costs of caring for elderly
parents before their own children are financially
independent.

17. • Lack of social support or social resources:
Caregivers who have the support of an
extended family, religious group, or close
friends and neighbors are less likely to lose
their self-control under stress.

18. • Mental disorders:
Depression, personality disorders , dissociative
disorders, and anxiety disorders can all affect
parents' ability to care for their children
appropriately. A small percentage of abusive
parents or spouses are psychotic.

19. • Substance abuse:
Alcohol and mood-altering drugs do not cause
abuse directly, but they weaken or remove a
person's inhibitions against violence toward
others. In addition, the cost of a drug habit
often gives a substance addict another reason
for resenting the needs of the dependent
person. A majority of workplace bullies are
substance addicts.

20. EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE

21. Lack of trust and relationship difficulties.
Abuse by a primary caregiver damages the
most fundamental relationship as a child—
that you will safely, reliably get your physical
and emotional needs met by the person who
is responsible for your care. Without this base,
it is very difficult to learn to trust people or
know who is trustworthy. This can lead to
difficulty maintaining relationships due to fear
of being controlled or abused..

22. • Core feelings of being “worthless” or
“damaged.”
If you’ve been told over and over again as a
child that you are stupid or no good, it is very
difficult to overcome these core feelings. You
may experience them as reality. Adults may
not strive for more education, or settle for a
job that may not pay enough, because they
don’t believe they can do it or are worth
more.

23. • Trouble regulating emotions.
Abused children cannot express emotions
safely. As a result, the emotions get stuffed
down, coming out in unexpected ways. Adult
survivors of child abuse can struggle with
unexplained anxiety, depression, or anger.
They may turn to alcohol or drugs to numb
out the painful feelings.

24. • Growing up in an abusive family can lead a
person to think that example is a good way to
discipline others. Others become abusive
because they're not able to manage their
feelings properly. Also, drinking too much
and/or drug use can make it difficult for some
people to control their actions. Certain types
of personality disorders or mental illness
might also interfere with someone's ability to
relate to others in healthy ways or cause
problems with aggression or self-control.

25. • Of course, not everyone with a personality
disorder or mental illness becomes abusive.
Fortunately, people who abuse can get help
and learn how to take responsibility for how
they act — and learn ways to stop.

26. How will it affect his/her studies and
behavior in school?
• Children who are abused are often in physical
and emotional pain at school, they cannot
concentrate on schoolwork, and consequently
fall behind in their grades. They often find it
hard to make or keep friends, and may be
victimized by bullies or become bullies
themselves.

27. How to cope with violence
• Talk About Your Feelings
• Arrange school age children to receive counseling
from professionals at their school, often school
counselors.
• Experiment with various types of counseling: play
therapy, peer support groups, anger management
classes and safety programs to teach kids how to
extract themselves from dangerous situations.

28. • Help children find a loving and supportive
adult to introduce to the child and encourage
the child to spend as much time regularly with
the adult. Family Violence Defense Fund
reports that the single most important
ingredient to help children heal and develop
resiliency is the presence of a loving adult.
• Provide a safe environment that does not
include violence in any form
• Help children create a sense of safety by
having scheduled routines, such as regular
meals and homework times.

29. LAWS AND ORDERS

30. In the Philippines, children’s human rights are
recognized and protected by law. The
enactment in 1991 of Republic Act 7610, or
more commonly known as the Anti-Child
Abuse Law, laid down the basic definitions of
what constitutes abuse of children as well as
penalties for such.

31. The law mandates for children to be protected
from “all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty,
exploitation
and discrimination and other conditions
prejudicial to their development” (Sec.2).

32. Section 3b of RA 7610 defines child abuse as
“the maltreatment, whether habitual or not,
of the child which includes any of the
following:
1) psychological and physical abuse, neglect,
cruelty, sexual abuse and emotional
maltreatment;
2) any act by deeds or words which debases,
degrades or demeans the intrinsic worth and
dignity of a child as human being;

33. 3) unreasonable deprivation of his basic needs
for survival, such as food and shelter; or
4) failure to immediately give medical treatment
to an injured child resulting in serious
impairment of his growth and development or
in his permanent incapacity or death.”

34. PROTECTION ORDER
• It is an order issued for the purpose of
preventing further acts of violence against a
woman or her child specified in R.A. 9262
(physical, sexual, and psychological violence,
and economic abuse) and granting other
necessary relief (Sec. 8, R.A. 9262)

35. PURPOSE:
• safeguarding the victim from further harm
• minimizing any disruption in the victim's daily
life
• facilitating the opportunity and ability of the
victim to independently regain control over
her life

36. Barangay Protection Orders (BPOs)
• refer to the protection order issued by
the barangay ordering the
perpetrator/respondent to desist from
committing the following acts: (a) causing
physical harm to the woman or her child; and
(b) threatening to cause the woman or her
child physical harm (Sec. 13, IRR of R.A. 9262)

37. • Prohibition of the respondent from
threatening to commit or committing,
personally or through another, the above-
mentioned acts
• Prohibition of the respondent from harassing,
annoying, telephoning, contacting or
otherwise communicating with the victim-
survivor, directly or indirectly (Sec. 13, IRR of
R.A. 9262)

38. Republic Act No. 9262
March 08, 2004
• AN ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, PROVIDING
FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR VICTIMS,
PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

39. • cited as Anti-Violence Against Women and
their Children Act of 2004, defines "violence
against women," provides for protective
measures and safeguards for survivor-victims,
and prescribes penalties for the commission
of the act.

40. Where to report violence
AGENCIES
• Department of Social Welfare and
Development – is a government
institution that handles matters of social
welfare of Filipinos especially of those in
need of proper care and attention

41. • PNP Women and Children Protection Center -
Formerly the Women and Children Concerns
Division (WCCD), the WCPC now serves as the
focal point of coordination and cooperation
between the PNP and the different
government and non-government
organizations (NGOs) involved in enhancing
the programs and activities for the protection
and welfare of women and children in the
fields of investigation, training and counseling