What is Family Violence | Tagalog | ANO ANG KARAHASAN SA PAMILYA

Summary

Fran Budoso, a social worker in Calgary, Alberta, explains how domestic violence is understood in Canada and describes its common forms. It can occur between spouses or partners, as well as within families—for example, when adult children harm their parents or when siblings are involved.

Domestic violence involves both harm and control or manipulation. When harmful behavior happens repeatedly and becomes a pattern, it may be considered domestic violence.

Types of domestic violence

• Emotional and psychological abuse: Repeated behavior that harms someone’s feelings or mental well-being. Examples include insults, belittling, threats, intimidation, prolonged silent treatment, or threatening to prevent a parent from seeing their child.
• Social abuse or isolation: Restricting someone’s contact with other people or access to the outside world. Examples include controlling who they may speak to, preventing them from seeing friends or family or leaving the house, monitoring their whereabouts, and restricting or checking their social media use.
• Verbal abuse: Shouting, scolding, or name-calling during conflicts, such as calling someone stupid or an idiot.
• Financial abuse: Controlling or withholding money, or giving a partner too little to meet family needs. Simply not having money is not itself financial abuse; the issue is controlling money. It can also include taking out debt in a spouse’s name and leaving them responsible for repayment.
• Sexual abuse: Forcing or coercing a partner into intimacy or sex without their consent. Being married does not make forced sex acceptable.
• Physical abuse: Conduct that hurts or threatens someone’s body. This includes hitting, throwing objects, breaking doors, or threatening someone with a weapon or object such as a knife, belt, or piece of wood.

Speaker

• Fran Budoso — social worker in Calgary, Alberta.