... other problems of childhood, does not occur in a vacuum. A variety of other individual, family and community problems tend to accompany sexual abuse" (Finkelhor 1995, p.1421). The system of family communication, socio-economic status and marital discord are just a few external problems that can contribute to and magnify the effect of the actual act of sexual abuse. It has been proven that therapeutic intervention ... as continually facilitate the act of child sexual abuse. Marital discord and poor family communication are strongly related to the degree of the impact of abuse on children...

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... has usually been women at which the propaganda seems to be targeted at. The reasons for this are to be found in the general status of women within the existing oppressive structure of society. With a lower literacy rate and a lower rate of participation in the labour force ... recent Family Court Ordinance. These laws function to punish the crime once committed, but does not really seek to challenge or change the subordinate status of women in society, without which none of the legislations could really be affected. A case in point is the Family Court Ordinance9 which was ... of the F...

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... women were staggering. Based on police figures, Aboriginal women are more than 45 times more likey to be a victim of domestic violence. The study also found that women in lower socio-economic areas were more likely to be victims of domestic violence than those from more affulent areas. The law has also had to deal with the situation where the victim of ... attack to kill their spouse and get away with it. In the past decade, domestic violence has been recognised as a major public health problem. It affects all people, irrespective of economic, educational, social, geographic or racial bac...

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