https://doi.org/10.31261/CHOWANNA.2005.24.05
A functional family, consistently and successfully fulfilling its responsibilities, provides its members with a sense of self-worth, security, connection, and love. Such a family, through attitudes of acceptance and cooperation, creates opportunities for shaping and enriching individual personalities. However, "family warmth sometimes reaches the temperature of hellfire"—this statement by R.J. Gelles (1979) aptly reflects the extent of the danger and suffering that can be experienced within a family. The occurrence of violence in the family signals the breakdown of family life at its most fundamental level and the collapse of the family’s responsibility for ensuring the safety of its members. This may involve any form of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse intentionally inflicted by one family member upon another. Over the past 30 years, there has been a growing interest in this issue. Domestic violence has become the subject of scientific research and an area of focus for practitioners who provide assistance to individuals in crisis situations. Women and children are most often the victims of domestic violence. Researchers currently distinguish seven forms of mistreatment, collectively referred to as family abuse. These include: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, non-organic failure to thrive (delayed physical development without organic causes), intrauterine abuse (prenatal neglect), and ritual abuse. The boundaries of family abuse are defined by the frequency of these acts and the perpetrator’s intent.
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Vol. 1 No. 24 (2005)
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